TOLEDO, Ohio — Darnell Jones will be extradited to Toledo from Columbus to face charges for the murder of his 13-year-old daughter, Kei’Mani Latigue. No definitive timeline has been announced for when Jones will be returned to Lucas County, which is partially due to the legal process that fleeing individuals with warrants must go through before being returned to the city where they committed a crime.
In Ohio, this is referred to as intra-state extradition or warrant pickup. The process is established through case law with a baseline built off of Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure, established by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Here’s a breakdown of what the process often looks like:
Arrest on a warrant
- An individual is arrested after an active warrant is entered into a state system like the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEAD) or the National Crime Information Center.
- The agency that made the arrest will contact the agency that issued the warrant to confirm it’s valid.
- The subject will be held in a local jail in the city they were arrested in.
- If the individual needs medical attention, treatment will come before they are released to the jail. A doctor must clear the individual for transport, but charges can still be filed and arraignments can still be held while the individual is hospitalized.
Court hearings
If new charges are filed in the city the arrest occurred in, there are two different ways the case can be handled to ensure an individual faces cases in each city…