USA TODAY: PHILADELPHIA … Now, after a USA TODAY investigation, authorities here and across the USA have promised to bring [accused sexual molester Yamin] Ren and thousands of other fugitives back to face justice regardless of where they are found.
The newspaper found this year that more than 330,000 accused felons — including some wanted in rapes and murders — can escape the charges against them merely by crossing a state border because police and prosecutors secretly decided in advance not to go that far to retrieve them. In the months that followed, officials from Florida to Pennsylvania reversed those decisions by the thousands, informing the FBI that they intend to retrieve fugitives from anyplace in the USA.
In Philadelphia, prosecutors reviewed thousands of the city’s old felony case files and identified hundreds of fugitives they plan to retrieve if the suspects surface in other states, a process known as extradition. Prosecutors approved extradition in at least 500 new cases, promising to seek people from other states for crimes as minor as drug possession, according to FBI records and court files… (more)
