Tags: Criminal.
The 5th Duke of Cleveland hoax garnered media attention in January 2006 after Joshua Adam Gardner (born September 4 1983) allegedly misrepresented himself to the students and staff of Stillwater Area High School in Oak Park Heights Minnesota as a fictional fifth Duke of Cleveland from England.When student journalists began researching Gardner’s identity they soon discovered his listing in an online Florida database as a registered sex offender based on Gardner’s 2003 Minnesota conviction for fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.
