Serbia Works to Help Find Upstate Attack Suspect

Yesterday, the federal government formally asked the Serbia to extradite Miladin Kovacevic, who is charged with beating a fellow Binghamton University student into a coma. The U.S. ambassador met with Serbian officials in Belgrade, and now the Serbian government is "moving with laser beam speed," a Daily News source says.

Kovacevic, a 6'9" 260-pound basketball player, allegedly beat up 5'6" and 135-pound Bryan Steinhauer in early May after Kovacevic's friends thought Steinhauer might have groped one of their girlfriends. Though Kovacevic (as well as two others) was charged with felonies for assault and gang assault and was held on $100,000 cash bail and had to give up his passport, Serbian deputy consul Ignor Milosevic posted the bail and provided an emergency passport, allowing Kovacevic to leave the country. This sparked outrage from officials like Senator Charles Schumer as well as Steinhauer's family in Brooklyn.

The Post reports that Kovacevic's father has "powerful allies" in the government. Peter Kovacevic, who had served as an army surgeon in the 1990s and is also described as a supporter of Slobodan Milocevic, had told the Post last week, "All around the world, they spread the lies that the Serbs only care about themselves. This is simply not the case. There is a worldwide conspiracy against Serbia and they are always showing us in a bad light."

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By Jen Chung in News on July 2, 2008 9:47 AM

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theevilone

Vast right wing conspiracies are directed at sitting presidents, but WORLDWIDE conspiracies are directed at Serbian college basketball players. And a bad college player, at that.

jterry121

Hopefully someone Ethnically Cleanses Slobodon here & all his scumbag friends

Spirit of 76

Laser beam speed. That's sort of like Han Solo making the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs.

Assuming we give them the benefit of the doubt and call it lightspeed, what medium are we talking about light moving through here? A vacuum would be nice, but I suspect it's more like a Bose-Einstein condensate.

babyhitler

laser beam speed. You mean really fast at short distances but dissipate the farther you get along? sounds about right.

Guest

"There is a worldwide conspiracy against Serbia and they are always showing us in a bad light."

If you'd come out of the shadows, the light would improve, jerkoff!

banjoandro

Can we get Niko to hunt him down?

ixvnyc

Peter Kovacevic, you and your son have done more damage to Serbia and Serbs in these few days than any alleged conspirators might have in a couple of years now.

Have your son come back and face a fair trial in this country which was obviosly better for you than Serbia, right?