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Detain order for Mexican suspected in slayings went astray

Detain order for Mexican suspected in slayings went astray

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Immigration authorities last year sought to detain a Mexican national charged with killing five men in Kansas and Missouri this week, but they sent the detention order to the wrong Kansas authorities. Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was deported in April 2004 because he was in the country illegally, but he re-entered at some unknown point in time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in an email.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Immigration authorities last year sought to detain a Mexican national charged with killing five men in Kansas and Missouri this week, but they sent the detention order to the wrong Kansas authorities. Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was deported in April 2004 because he was in the country illegally, but he re-entered at some unknown point in time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in an email.…