OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A man arrested in Nebraska for fleeing a murder sentence in Croatia has been deported. Federal immigration officials say Drazen Demirovic was sent to Croatia on Monday. He was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Authorities say Demirovic was charged with killing the owner of a goat he was trying to steal in the mid-1990s. He spent a year in
jail in Serbia while awaiting trial. He fled when he was released before his trial, and the court convicted him in his absence. Demirovic entered the U.S. in 2002 and became a permanent
resident in 2005. A warrant was then issued. Demirovic was arrested at his home in Omaha in 2009. In April, a judge rescinded his resident status and ordered him deported.