SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Wyoming authorities say it will take longer than initially thought to bring in a Utah man accused in the death of a train worker.
Lincoln County Attorney Spencer Allred said in a statement Friday it will take a few weeks to extradite 23-year-old Dereck James “DJ” Harrison because Utah prison authorities are processing him.
Harrison was sentenced to at least 30 years in a Utah prison last week after pleading guilty to tying up a woman and her four daughters in a basement.
He has agreed to waive extradition to face murder charges that could carry the death penalty. Allred had hoped to move him to Wyoming within days of sentencing.
Prosecutors say he and his father snatched the train worker while on the run from police and killed him in Wyoming.
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