Call A Diplomat - Get Out Of Jail

So, what do you do when you are a 6-foot-9, 260 pound foreign student at a university in New York and you're charged with the vicious beating of a 130-pound Binghamton University student?  Just contact the Serbian consulate in New York City, they'll hand over $100,000 to the courts to spring you from jail.

Then the embassy will give you an "emergency" passport that does not match Homeland Security's records.  And off you fly to freedom back in Serbia to thank mom and dad for their cleverness.  Such appears to be the case of 20 year old Miladin Kovacevic charged with beating Binghamton University student Bryan Steinhauer into a coma.

It never occured to New York State court officials that a diplomat would aid a felony suspect in fleeing the country.   And international law grants immunity from prosecution to the diplomat which can, incidentally, be waived by Serbia.

And the larger lesson here is that Homeland Security does not have in place a secure system that goes beyond looking at passport numbers.  Homeland Security seems not to know the true background of a passenger boarding an international flight out of New York City. 

Look, it's simple.  If the passport number of a departing foreign national going out of the country does not match the passport number coming into the country - - then the buzzer must go off and the traveler detained.  Homeland Security messed up.  Big Time.