Red Ranger Arrested: Is the Red Power Ranger in jail?

Jason Lawrence Geiger also known as Austin St. John has been arrested.

Jason/St. John is best known as the original Red Ranger in the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” series, has been arrested with 17 others in an alleged $3.5 million fraud scheme.

St. John was indicted on Thursday, May 12, 2022 and is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The Red Power Ranger is not in jail but if he is convicted, faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

According to The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas in a May 18 news release, the scheme, which was against the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program was led by Michael Hill and Andrew Moran.

Hill then recruited business owners to submit PPP loan applications while Moran helped fabricate documentation for the funding.

The Paycheck Protection Program was instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide financial assistance to businesses adversely affected during the pandemic.

The 18 defendants, including The Famous Red Power Ranger, fraudulently obtained the $3.5 million through at least 16 loans, officials said and are accused of not using the money for its intended purposes, such as paying their employee salaries.

Court documents indicate that The Red Power Ranger obtained a PPP loan for $225,754 for St. John Enterprises, sent $22,529 to Hill or Moran and invested $170,000.

The former Red Ranger spent 16 years as a paramedic before he retired in 2014.

Since then, he has remained a fixture at comic book conventions throughout the United States.