Nicaragua Prosecutes Dual National Fleeing U.S. after Apparent Murder

On September 3, 2019, a Nicaraguan court held a hearing for the first time for Orlando Tercero in Managua, Nicaragua, where he will be tried for the murder of his former girlfriend Haley Anderson in Binghamton, New York.[1] The Nicaraguan government has denied requests from the United States government to extradite Tercero, a 23-year-old former Binghamton University student.  Tercero is suspected of strangling Anderson, a nursing student, in his Oak Street student residence.  On March 9, 2018, police discovered her body after responding to a welfare check.  Soon after the murder, U.S. authorities believe Tercero, who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Nicaragua, caught a flight from New York to Nicaragua.[2]