Also snipped from MSM link above:
"We got the court order in January (on the charges), said Maj. Clyde Deal with the Hickory Police Department. Theres a lot more to this than people think.
Baker was placed under an immigration detainer by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the jail Tuesday evening.
Deal said investigators have known for a few months Baker was in the country illegally and intended to bring illegal immigration charges to a Catawba County grand jury, with the hopes it would indict Baker.
Our intent to start with was to indict, Deal said. We didnt know if he was going to be here to indict. We served the warrants to ensure he would be here when the indictments were served. If hes out of the country, it doesnt make sense.
BBM:
I have been thinking there is a lot more to this. The timing is strange. Why wait so long to charge, unless they wanted him out on the streets so they could watch him and wait for some kind of slip up or wait on more evidence in the investigation into Zahra's death. And it was not like he was going anywhere in the next few days, his next court date was not until June before this, and they have his passport. And his lawyer said he would not be pleading guilty to the threat charges, which means a trial date would have been set. so did they not have atleast a few months before they had to worry about him leaving the country.
Confused but giddy!