Utah man accused of selling unproven COVID-19 treatment in 2020, behind bars after 3-year fugitive hunt
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A Utah man who allegedly claimed to be a doctor and sold an unproven product to treat coronavirus fled after his 2020 indictment and was arrested and put behind bars.
Pedersen was wanted after failing to appear in federal court on Aug. 25, 2020 for an indictment charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud and felony introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead. Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.
Court documents allege that before approved COVID-19 vaccines were available, Pedersen was using the internet to sell a "structural alkaline silver" product he claimed "resonates, or vibrates, at a frequency that destroys the membrane of the virus, making the virus incapable of attaching to any healthy cell, or to infect you in any way."
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