Idaho slaying suspect is no longer in county jail and has been turned over to Pennsylvania State Police, warden says - NBC News

Bryan Christopher Kohberger, the antheral accused of fatally stabbing 4 University of Idaho students, was removed from a region jailhouse successful Pennsylvania and turned implicit to authorities constabulary Wednesday, officials said.

“He is nary longer successful the custody of the Monroe County Correctional Facility; he’s successful the custody of the Pennsylvania State Police,” warden Garry Haidle said. “He’s retired of my custody.”

It wasn't instantly wide erstwhile Kohberger would beryllium connected a level for Idaho.

Less than 24 hours earlier, the 28-year-old Kohberger waived extradition successful a Stroudsburg courtroom, paving the mode for his travel to Latah County, Idaho.

That's wherever Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson said Kohberger volition beryllium charged with 4 counts of first-degree execution and burglary, accused of breaking into the Moscow, Idaho, location with the intent to perpetrate a felony.

He "will beryllium evaluated by Jail unit erstwhile helium arrives, arsenic does each different inmate who enters our facility. Mr. Kohberger’s lodging classification volition beryllium based connected the valuation fixed by jailhouse staff," Latah County Sheriff Richard Skiles said successful a statement.

Kohberger was arrested Friday in Albrightsville successful northeastern Pennsylvania, astir 2,500 miles from Moscow, wherever the students were killed Nov. 13.

He's been charged successful the slayings of Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Avondale, Arizona; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho.

The fishy was a doctoral student in the transgression justness and criminology section astatine Washington State University, 9 miles from Moscow.

Kohberger is “no longer enrolled arsenic a student” astatine the university, a schoolhouse typical said Tuesday without elaborating.