This is straight out of a Bourne Identity movie.

Miladin Kovacevic, a Binghamton University basketball player was charged with felony assault and held in Broome County Jail, after an incident at The Rathskeller bar in the early morning hours of May 4.  Police say Kovacevic and two of his friends engaged in a fight with Brian Steinhauer, a student of Brooklyn College, beating and kicking Steinhauer’s head while he was on the ground, and ultimately breaking his eye sockets and jaw.  Steinhauer, an honor student who was set to work at a prestigious accounting firm, remains in a medically-induced coma near his family’s Brooklyn home.

It gets worse:

“On June 6, Igor Milosevic, the Serbian vice consul, posted $20,000 in cash and $80,000 in a bank money order in Broome County Court to spring Kovacevic, a bail receipt obtained by the upstate Press & Sun-Bulletin newspaper shows.

Kovacevic, who faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted, surrendered his passport and was freed from jail later that day. . . .

. . . Broome County officials contacted Customs agents on the Canadian border on June 10, fearful that Kovacevic might try to flee the country.

Hours later, the prosecutors received shocking news from U.S. Customs Enforcement: Kovacevic, with the emergency passport, had left on a Lufthansa flight from Newark Airport bound for Frankfurt.”

It seems that Kovacevic received shady support from the Serbian consulate.  It’s unclear at this point their true role in his flight from the country, however Kovacevic was believed to have used an older passport to leave the country, after he forfeited his newer at the jail.  This story has been all over the Binghamton Press-Sun, but recently showed up in the NY Daily News.