WHAT THE FUCK? WHEN DID STATES STOP EXTRADITING MURDERERS?

By Trey Rusk

Running Code 3
January 7, 2019

I once had a career criminal (burglar and drug offender) located by law enforcement out of state. The DA's office decided he was better off gone from Texas and wouldn't extradite him. I guess someone determines the costs of transporting the prisoner along with trial costs and decided he wasn't worth the trouble. OK, I can live with that because they kept the warrant active, just in case the maggot turned up in Texas. Also, the local agency that stopped him knows that he is in their jurisdiction and will probably resort to his known criminal behavior.

What is the extradition radius for a murderer? I ask this question because I read that a wanted murderer was recently stopped in Ohio and California advised Ohio police that he was out of their radius for extradition. This story ran on WKBN from Youngstown, Ohio and I couldn't see where California even placed a hold on the murderer. Luckily, he was also wanted in New York for aggravated robbery and they will extradite.

I wonder if the California authorities notified the murder victim's family? Do you think they called to tell them that Ohio had him in custody, but we decided he was beyond our radius of extradition? Do you think California told them they would not extradite the person that is alleged to have killed your loved one? I doubt it.

What could be the reason for this lack of standard law enforcement response. A weak case? Then cancel the warrant. I am stymied, because once LE starts refusing to pick up wanted murderers we will have murderers killing and then moving across the country to avoid prosecution.

I guess we can do away with the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Apprehension Unit.

I think the criminals may be winning with the selective lack of prosecution by local D.A.'s such as Massachusetts District Attorney Rachael Rollins who made a list of 15 crimes not to be prosecuted.

Couple non-extradition for serious felonies and selective prosecution by liberal D.A.'s and you have a criminal's Utopia.

On a brighter note the career criminal I was speaking of at the beginning of this blog is now doing a long stretch in Nevada for several burglaries in the Carson City area. Good job, Douglas County.

That's the way I see it.