LISBON, Portugal - Portugal won't extradite American fugitive George Wright to the United States for crimes he committed there four decades ago, after the U.S. ran out of possibilities to appeal the decision to let him stay, a Portuguese court official said Wednesday.
A U.S. Department of Justice official says the United States has asked Portugal's Supreme Court to review its refusal to extradite American fugitive George Wright.
A U.S. senator from New Jersey is urging the Portuguese government to return an American fugitive who escaped from a state prison in 1970 and spent more than 40 years on the lam before being captured in September in Portugal.
The U.S. Justice Department says it has appealed a Portuguese judge's decision not to extradite longtime fugitive George Wright back to the United States.