Ex-Binghamton Player Hiding in Serbia

There's nothing about this story to like. The America Least Blog has been covering the tale of now former Binghamton University Bearcat player Minja Kovacevic reportedly beating a fellow student to near death. Kovacevic had bail posted. Despite reportedly surrendering his passport, the Serbian native apparently got back to Serbia. Now it turns out that the Serbian Consulate in New York had posted his bail.

Don't bother looking for answers about that yet, the Consulate has none.

Serbian Consul General Slobodan Nenadovic said Monday his office is aware of the incident. But the consulate official who handled Kovacevic's bail is out of the New York City office for two weeks. Nenadovic said Monday he was unable to comment until he knows more about the case.

"I don't know what else I can tell you," Nenadovic said.

That's convenient.

So how did a 6-9 man with no passport manage to leave the country? Homeland Security and Immigration have no idea.

"This is not a case that Immigration and Custom Enforcement was involved in at any point," said Michael W. Gilhooley, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of Homeland Security.

Yet, they can confirm he left the country. No, nothing about this stinks. Nothing at all.

Believe it or not, the US and Serbia have an extradition treaty and if Kovacevic is "found" in Serbia he can be returned to Broome County, NY. I'm not holding my breath anyone is going to find him. Not with everything that has happened.

Binghamton has announced that Kovacevic's scholarship hasn't been renewed for the 2008-09 school year. Bryan Steinhauer, the student that was beaten remains in the hospital in an unconscious and unresponsive since the beating in the beginning of May.