Canadian high school basketball player said he was 17. Authorities say he’s 30.

In November, Jonathon Nicola arrived in Ontario as a refugee from war-ravaged South Sudan. At 17 years old and standing 6 feet 9, he seemed a natural fit for the boys’ basketball team at Catholic Central High in Windsor. He even lived with Pete Cusumano, the team’s basketball coach who said Nicola possibly could play in the NBA some day.

That’s probably not going to happen. On Wednesday, the Canada Border Services Agency announced it had arrested Nicola for a violation of the country’s Immigration Refugee Protection Act. The reason: he’s believed to be 30 years old, not 17.

According to the Windsor Star’s Trevor Wilhelm, who broke the story, Nicola entered the country through a program called Canada Homestay, which finds homes for foreign students, and was living there under a student visa. But on Tuesday, Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board decided that Nicola should remain in custody, with another hearing next week.

Cusumano told Wilhelm he wasn’t allowed to talk about Nicola, and school officials were similarly mum on the matter. That wasn’t the case in January, when Cusumano raved about Nicola’s basketball skills to the Star’s Bob Duff, even though his newest player, who came to school as an 11th-grader, had spent only a few months playing organized basketball.

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Photos at link...doesn't look 17 to me.