Ireland stays hearing to extradite Russell

MOSCOW, Idaho – The extradition hearing for a former Washington State University student accused of killing three people in a drunken-driving accident has been pushed back to Jan. 26 in Dublin, Ireland.

Police arrested Frederick Russell in Dublin on Oct. 23 – four years to the day after he fled three counts of vehicular homicide and four counts of vehicular assault in Washington state.

Washington police and prosecutors contend that Russell was over the state’s drunken-driving limit when he tried to overtake other cars in a sports utility vehicle at about 90 mph and crashed into other vehicles, killing three fellow university students. Three other people were seriously injured.

Prosecutors filed for Russell’s extradition in January after a Dublin tipster spotted his photograph on the U.S. Marshals Service’s Web site, which listed Russell among the United States’ 15 most-wanted criminal suspects.

He had been working in a Dublin lingerie shop under the alias David Carroll.

A judge in Ireland refused to grant bail after an Irish police officer testified Russell would probably flee Ireland if released.