Girl Finds Strange Coin With Metal Detector — Expert Turns Pale When He Sees It

She pushed her legs faster, catching sight of flashing red and blue lights shimmering through the tree trunks ahead. Bursting into the clearing at the edge of the forest, she tumbled into the open just as police cruisers screeched to a halt.

Hold charged out of the brush right behind her, only to freeze in sheer terror as armed officers instantly swarmed the tree line. With nowhere left to run, he was slammed onto the hood of a cruiser and handcuffed, ending the terror in an instant.

As officers dragged Hold away in handcuffs, investigators quickly unraveled his secret. The man was no professor at all. His real name was Victor Kowlaski, an infamous black-market dealer who used fake academic credentials to target amateur detectorists.