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Man on run for 2001 fatal crash denied bail in Ireland
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The Associated Press



DUBLIN, Ireland -- A former Washington State University student who was the first alleged drunken driver to appear on the U.S. Marshals' most-wanted list was refused bail today after an Irish police officer testified he would flee Ireland if freed.

Frederick Russell, 27, has been kept behind bars in Cloverhill Prison near Dublin since his arrest in the Irish capital Oct. 23 -- four years to the day after he fled three counts of vehicular homicide and four counts of vehicular assault in Washington state.

An Irish High Court judge, Justice Elizabeth Dunne, rejected as inadequate a promise from Russell's Irish girlfriend, Hazel McNaboe, that Russell would turn up voluntarily for extradition hearings if freed.

Attorneys for the U.S. government filed for Russell's extradition in January after a Dublin tipster spotted Russell's photograph on the U.S. Marshals' 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.

There was no word on when the extradition hearing will be held.

Ireland has refused most extradition requests from the United States in the past two decades, and it is unclear if Russell will be returned to face charges in southeast Washington's Whitman County.

Russell is charged in a 2001 crash that killed three people and seriously injured several others on state Highway 270, the two-lane road that connects the college towns of Pullman, Wash. and Moscow, Idaho.

Accident reports said Russell was driving an SUV at about 90 mph and trying to pass other vehicles when he struck three cars the night of June 4, 2001. All the dead and seriously injured were returning from a movie in one car.

Killed in the crash were WSU seniors Brandon Clements, 22, of Wapato; Stacy G. Morrow, 21, of Milton, and Ryan Sorensen, 21, of Westport. Seriously injured were John Wagner of Harrington, Kara Eichelsdoerfer of Central Park and Sameer Ranade of Kennewick.

Russell suffered minor injuries. At a hospital after the crash, his blood-alcohol level measured .12 percent, well above the legal intoxication threshold of .08.

A few days before his trial was to begin, a friend drove Russell to the airport in Calgary, Alberta, on Oct. 23, 2001. Federal officials now believe he flew immediately to England.

Russell sent a letter to his father and several newspapers, saying he feared he could not receive a fair trial.



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