Criminal complaint charging Ryan Borgwardt details how the 45-year-old pulled off disappearance to Georgia country

A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children for eastern Europe willingly returned to the US. after four months and was charged Wednesday with obstructing an intense lake search for his body.

The criminal complaint charging Ryan Borgwardt with misdemeanor obstruction offers a detailed account of how the 45-year-old pulled off his disappearance, including how he struggled to emerge from the water, almost didn’t make it through customs on his way overseas and was living in the country of Georgia when he realized he had left too many clues behind.