Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'Binghamton'
November 1, 2008
The case of Miladin Kovacevic does not appear to be heading toward the ultimate payoff many had hoped for--seeing him tried and sentenced here in the US. Kovacevic is the Serbian basketball player who was detained in his home country this week after what has been an incredibly drawn out six months of Americans attempting to bring him to justice after his brutal beating of a fellow SUNY Binghamton student. A Serbian judge has said......
Continue Reading "Serbian Beatdown Case Continues to Drag On"October 28, 2008
The AP reports that Miladin Kovacevic has been arrested in Belgrade today. Kovacevic was involved in a beating at Binghamton University that left a fellow student brutally beaten. Though charged, Kovacevic managed to flee U.S. with the help of the Serbian vice consul gneral, who posted his $100,000 cash bail and provided an emergency passport. Which then caused tense relations between the U.S. and Serbia, as the victim, Brooklyn resident Bryan Steinhauer, remained in a......
Continue Reading "Arrested: Serb Wanted in Upstate Beating "July 5, 2008
A lawyer for Miladin Kovacevic says that the 6'9" 260 lb. basketball player doesn't trust the U.S. legal system and was taunted and tortured by inmates and guards after he was arrested for allegedly beating a 135 lb. college senior into a coma in Binghamton last month. Veselin Cerovic explained that's why Kovacevic jumped bail and fled the country with an emergency passport issued by the Serbian consulate in New York, "My client told me......
Continue Reading "Serbian Baller Doesn't Trust American Law & Order "December 4, 2007
Anders Uwadinobi, a freshman from the Bronx, was "play" fighting with a friend in a dorm room at SUNY Binghamton when he suffered fatal injuries Sunday night. An autopsy is being conducted, but a student who witnessed the situation when he heard screams to call 911 said he saw Uwadinobi "shaking" and seizing. The 18-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center. The student told the Post, "They were playing around.......
Continue Reading "Binghamton "Consensual" Dorm Boxing Match Death"
