Arizona Prosecutor Refuses to Extradite Murder Suspect to New York

The Maricopa County attorney alluded to fears that the Manhattan district attorney would release the suspect into the community.

Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell asks questions of Christine Blasey Ford at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27, 2018. Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images

A county prosecutor in Arizona won’t be extraditing a murder suspect to New York City because of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s handling of violent offenders, she told local media at a news conference on Feb. 21.

“I know there’s been discussion about New York wanting to extradite this individual,” said Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, a Republican. “This is not aimed at the New York Police Department at all. I know they did a hard job and they did a good job, but we will not be agreeing to extradition.”