A 39-year-old man wanted for murder in Serbia was arrested in Naples early Thursday after police officers were sent to a home to investigate a noise complaint.
After Aleksandar Cvrcle Stepanovich was accused of kicking an officer in the face, other officers ran a routine check for warrants and found Stepanovich had an active warrant through Interpol, an international organization for law enforcement.
As of late Friday, Lt. John Barkley said Naples police had not been informed about details of the murder warrant. Attempts to reach Interpol representatives were unsuccessful Friday.
Barkley said Naples police have had prior encounters with Stepanovich for traffic infractions, although he had no serious charges brought against him. During those encounters, police knew there was an international warrant naming Stepanovich, but Serbian officials had declined to extradite him back to their country, giving officers no reason to detain him, Barkley said.
When officers pulled up the warrant information Thursday, it had changed to indicate Serbia would take steps to extradite Stepanovich back to Europe. Barkley said he expected Stepanovich would remain at the Naples Jail Center until Interpol authorities intervene.
Confirmation of the warrant could take up to 10 days, reports said.
Naples police reports giving the following account of Stepanovich’s arrest:
Around 4 a.m., officers were called to an apartment at 450 Bayfront Place, where neighbors had reported there were dogs barking and people loudly talking, screaming and singing. When an officer tried to get the residents’ attention by shining his flashlight on their balcony, Stepanovich used an expletive and told him to bring a warrant upstairs if he needed to speak with him.
Two women at the apartment, Anamarija Miric, 32, and Monika Mozolicova, 33, began to talk with officers but would not let them inside, saying they were wasting their time and should be arresting “real” criminals. The officers issued Mozolicova a notice to appear for the noise violation and told her to turn down the music.
About five minutes later, however, the neighbor called police and said the residents had turned their music up loudly again. When the officers went to speak with the residents, they had the door slammed in their face.
When they went to arrest Mozolicova for disorderly conduct, the residents began to hit officers before locking themselves in a back bedroom. At one point, Stepanovich, who was handcuffed, kicked an officer in the face, causing the officer to fall back.
The officer used a stun gun to subdue Stepanovich, who was taken into custody. The officer was taken to a Naples hospital, according to reports, but was treated and released with no serious injuries, Barkley said.
Stepanovich, of Springfield, Va.; Miric, of Washington D.C.; Mozolicova, of the 300 block of Third Avenue South, Naples; Milan Uzunovic, 25, of Oakland Park, near Fort Lauderdale; and Ivana Kavaja, 39, whose Naples address was not released, each face charges of resisting arrest, resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct.
Stepanovich also faces one count of aiding escape and one count of battery on a law enforcement officer. Miric also faces one count of aiding escape.
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Comments » 53
local64 writes:
DEPORT!
Z07 writes:
You can taka a Serb out of Serbia but you can't take the Serbian out of the Serb...
Trexler writes:
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Kyser851 writes:
Something tells me they were not in Naples for a vacation. It would appear they had other motives abruptly put to an end by a hard working officer, and their ignorance to the law.
Billbag writes:
I remember reading about ICE a bit ago in the paper. I really hope ICE has been notified in this case. They all should never step another foot in the United States again...!
Keep them here long enough for Court, sentence them heavily, hold the sentence, and send them back to Serbia to save our tax dollars, if they return enforce the sentence on the ones arrested...
wonderful (Inactive) writes:
Prob just a stopover on the way to the chicago summit with present obama, eh?
RayPray writes:
"One officer said he was on his knees trying to handcuff one of suspects when Stepanovich charged toward him and kicked him in the face."
At least old Alek wasn't doing something truly heinous, like checking out kiddy porn....
RayPray writes:
http://www.facebook.com/aleksandar.st...
Caramela1 writes:
Coming from someone who personally knows Aleks,
1. that is not his Facebook
2. he is not a bad person I have known him and Monika for 5 years now and they are both really good people.
3. for all you know this whole murder in Serbia could just be some over exaggregated story that isn't even true.
Why are people so quick to judge and say deport ! deport!.. unlike all illegal immagrents they came here the correct way and followed the correct procedures to stay. Everyone makes mistakes and. How many people have been arrested for aggravated battery on a police officer that are born and raised in the US? Too many to count but when a few get arrested for it because they were trying to protect their family it turns into a huge scandal. Wake up people and stop being so judgmental.
anthonynaples writes:
Worked at Sea Salt on Third Street..At his prices I am sure he (owner) will pay for his defense..
stonnerjohnnyII writes:
Was the kick good for 3?
anthonynaples writes:
Worked at Sea Salt on Third Street..I guess no screening required to work there..At his (owner) prices he can afford a defense lawyer for his mgr.
slickwillie writes:
now its eastern block troublemakers here too??? these Serbs look like syndicate crime novel characters.........
or is it just the warm feel of socialism they are seeking for vacation?
OKcorral writes:
When you apply for a visa, don't they check for outstanding murder warrants first? I guess not. Makes you a little uncomfortable about immigration system, doesn't it?
Caramela1 writes:
Actually I have personally been through the immigration process and they do check for outstanding warrants. Hints to why this is a false story
puckdog writes:
Outside of kicking law enforcement in the head......they are nice folks!!!.........Wake up Caramela......We do not need this scum here!........we have enough problems without them......
QueBonita writes:
Can you say PAAARRRRTTYY!!! in Serbian?
FreshFace writes:
send them back
Creep writes:
I've been known not to answer the door with two hotties locked in.
manforpeace writes:
Staying at Jack A's digs?
have noticed a lot of them types over there..
Good of him to kick our police state boys around tho.... lol
paul_vincent_zecchino writes:
Looking at the photo, anyone else wondering, this guy's related, Stallone? Or did NDN mix Sly's early casting agent headshot with that of the accused?
Why do cops say 'bad guys exist in a world of greed and terror'? Isn't it because they do anything - absolutely anything - to satisfy greed and then dimly exist in a state of terror, forever wondering will this day of freedom be their last?
Didn't Keyser Soze well illustrate the paradigm when he said, 'a truck carrying stripped down gun parts got 'jacked outside Queens last night. Somebody heard something. Sometimes, that's all you need.'*
Isn't it uncanny, the way in which the unraveling of crime syndicates begins with somebody hearing something?
It's often something small, isn't it, like a noise complaint, which unravels the greater crime?
Somebody heard something. PD Naples, who'd been watching this one for a while, responded. Shortly, they had all they needed.
It's always the way, isn't it, Zecchino Estate Grifters?
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
18 May, 2012
* - Roger 'Verbal' Kint a/k/a Keyser Soze
c. 1995; Singer, Ottman & McQuarrie
"I can't feel my legs, Keyser."
- Dean Keaton,
ibid
Jarvis (Inactive) writes:
OH, in prior incidents, Police knew this guy had a warrant for murder, but since the Serbs did not want to extradite him, they figured it was OK to just let him free in Naples, murdering senior citizens over here??
reallifeswfla writes:
Build the wall, deport them all.
Wake up people, we (the USA) are broke.
We can't afford the "give us your poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free" anymore.
Heck we can even afford to cut the grass.
No matter what Caramella says ("I know these people..."), these Serbs are trouble.
Send them packing.
Murder or not, they have no respect for the law and need to go.
If they kick an officer in the face, if they won't turn the music down, if they slam the door in the Police's face, they are commiting a crime.
Send the Slavs packing, all of them.
Patton writes:
What does present obama mean? Do you mean President Obama? If you're going to shoot off your mouth, educate yourself first. He had nothing to do with this. Do yourself a favor and finish your high school education.
CITYOFNAPLESWHATAJOKE writes:
Wow can you be any more of a farking moron and scum to our American society? Let me explain: First of all look up what Interpol is you idiot, the Naples police get and got their information from Interpol which is an INTERNATIONAL data base which stated the warrant info. They don't just magically come out and say oh he has a warrant in Serbia dumb arse! All the Officers do is "run" the person in the system and it gives them that info so if you have an issue with it contact Interpol you fool! Next nice people you say? If your from the same place they came from then like them you need to go back!! In my country nice people don't resist or try to hurt the police you worthless piece of life! We here in America respect the police. I don't care how nice you thought they were before this incident however this one incident clearly shows they weren’t and are not as nice as you think. So get out of my country along with them and go beat up on your police in Serbia. If I was a betting man, if you did this kind of thing in Serbia they wouldn’t even be in jail right now id say they would probably be closer to being on their death bed right now! So they should consider themselves lucky!
CarpeVeritas writes:
present obama? wonderful means as opposed to the past obama, future obama, subjective obama, present perfect obama....
Give wonderful a crack at the 8th grade writing FCAT.
CITYOFNAPLESWHATAJOKE writes:
Wow I really cannot stand ignorance! Here is yet another post from a moron who is clueless! Let me explain you idiot: If the national and or international data base states NO EXDRADITION" (look that up if you don't know what it means) the officers CANNOT DETAIN the person just because they feel like it or want too! In America if law enforcement has no reason to detain they must release! If you have an issue with that then talk to those who make the laws and don’t condemn your police who are just doing their jobs! And instead of worrying about why the cops did not detain him in the past, how about showing some concern and empathy for the officers who were involved and got hit and or hurt? God forbid you'd do that huh?
FloridaVoter writes:
Serbia has its own problems with the judicial system - but given the "gentleman's" conduct, I doubt he is a victim of injustice. And yes, the US State Department does check for warrants when issuing a visa, but often, people already have visas and then use them to come toe the U.S. before a warrant is issued. Once in the U.S. legally in tourist status, one can legally prolong the status without going back to get a new visa. People often lie on the forms, and their lies are not caught because US immigration authorities do not have access to as much in depth info as U.S. consulates in the home countries. If he is in custody now, ICE can also investigate if he lied, which is a deportable offense in itself.
Be that as it may, this guy should be deported for criminal stupidity in aggravating a situation to the point that his past has now caught up with him. The arrogance in light of the past astounds me.
wonderful (Inactive) writes:
Well this is giving him credit because most of the time he is not present obama. Like on a campaign jambo or vacation.
Maybe we could conjugate and give him the pluperfect in November and say that he used to be not present obama and then move on to start getting AAAmerica more better, eh? And I like his budget, too!
BTW: I wrote the FCAT, man!
G----- means extra credit!
shwing writes:
Great job NPD! Hope the officer is ok.
Caramela1 writes:
so a question to all. All the news say he is going to be in holding for at least 10 days for the extradition warrant to take effect. Now tell me this, if he was truly going to be charged of this crime in Serbia and be extradited, then why was he let out on bond? Maybe because it's just a huge scandal made up by the police to have a story make headlines ? I think so
Caramela1 writes:
so quick to judge like everyone else . I am an American citizen born and raised here. My husband is not and I had to go through the process with him in order for him to stay with me. They did checks on both of us but mainly him. If this gentleman is guilty of these charges in Serbia, why did he make bond? Maybe because of propaganda? Also if you read the full story then you would see the were all inside the house and the cops broke in. There for giving them a right to fight, even though they should not have , the cops also should not have gone into the house after they shut the door in their face. Just another example of profiling by the justice system.
STONECRAB writes:
Let"s take a vote . If you would like to send Carmela1 "s third world husband back to wherever he came from please indicate yes or no in your next post . Thank you for your participation .
crazyjoedivola writes:
Carmela need to go with him!!! " cops had no right to come in after he shut the door in their face" Seriously?
crazyjoedivola writes:
Oh, and the person who gave him the visa needs to be investigated, if he even has permission to be in this country.
crazyjoedivola writes:
Looks like no social security card required, either.
crazyjoedivola writes:
Happy Russia Week!! Maybe they were imported to give the event a little authenticity.
naplesgirl1 writes:
Yes he has permission,he is US citizen.He was born in US.Do not judge by the last name.What country did your ancestors come from?Or maybe your are American Indian (Native American)?
naplesgirl1 writes:
And what does Russia have anything to do with this case?(Russia and Serbia are two different countries)
neapolitan100 writes:
Monika Mozolicova is also known as Monika Mozolic. She
has a green card and has been in the US for many years. She is from Slovakia. She met and married Stepanovich here in the US. They have a toddler together. She's a good person and it
seems like a case of getting mixed up with the wrong guy.
They are all out of jail on bail according to the county
jail website.
okay writes:
I'll bet you have. And people wonder why immigrants have become a subject of ridicule for Americans.....sorry no offence, but I've just become cynical watching our country (and my taxes) being exploited.
dmarko326 writes:
Balkan people (and Russians) are no slouches.
They are entrepeneurial enough to set-up shop in money filled places like here, South Beach, etc. and skillfully liberate tourists monies without much sweat and effort. South Beach, the Russians run some of the nightclubs where mixed drinks can cost upwards of $200 per drink. Charge credit cards for upwards of $2000 for nights folly.
Caramela1 writes:
They are great people.. and Aleks would not of been able to make bail and be out of jail if the allegations is Serbia were true
Jarvis (Inactive) writes:
Instead of sending them all back, the entrance requirements need to be under greater scrutiny. The rush to make things faster has let the security standards get even lower than they used to be.
In regards to the illegal aliens that work on farms, they need to be given work chip that is implanted under their skin, and which can be scanned by the Police or other Law Enforcement.
Those who are here illegally, and are not working, need to get sent back to their countries without any trials, hearings, or other expensive court activities that are being paid for by the taxpayers.
These folks are not an asset to any nation, and the U.S.A. needs to stop letting them suck the life out of America.
Caramela1 writes:
They are great people.. and Aleks would not of been able to make bail and be out of jail if the allegations is Serbia were true. He would still be detained until they came to take him away .
what234 writes:
he couldnt have come here the "correct way" if he had an outstanding interpol warrent so try again......
he was trying to protect his family??
and it wouldnt have turned into such a big deal if they ha just complied with the request to tone it down, so they thought they were above the law and got what they deserved. doesnt matter if he is a nice guy to you he broke the law this time.
Baka writes:
DEPORT? AMERICAN CITISEN FOR 22 YEARS ,FALLS CHARGED IN SERBIA( HE WAS IN BUSSINES TRIP THERE) JYST BECOUSE HE WAS ONLY ONE AMERICAN CITISEN WITH AMERICAM PASSPORT!!! HE IS INNOCENT AND YOU CAN FIND PROOF IN NAPLES COURT.
jlweasel writes:
I hate serbians! Thats right I said it!
Baka writes:
Hi live in US 22 years,and he is AMERICAN citisen.
Baka writes:
This becouse there are the Slavs, Serbs or what?? Sorry but this people have all rights in United States becouse they are citisens and residents a many many years, like most of americans. Aleksandar is american citisen 22 years, high educated, hard workihg man,exelent friend, husband and devoted father. First time for this 22 years he have problem with police . He live in Naples 4 years and in that building 1,5years. He is not killer or any tipe of criminal. he never have problem with law.They just celebrate his innocents from false Serbian accusation. Alkohol was involved and everuthing goes wrong when police come.
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