War crimes suspect sentenced in Ohio for lying on documents

CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Croatian couple as a member of a Serbian militia group engaged in ethnic cleansing in 1992 has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for lying on immigration documents.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Cleveland says 53-year-old Slobodan Mutic will then be sent to Croatia to face trial for the slayings during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Authorities say Mutic is a suspect in a third slaying there.

The Barberton man pleaded guilty in the U.S. case last month. He was sentenced today.

Mutic’s attorney calls it a tragic situation. Mutic traveled to the U.S. in 1999 as a refugee and settled in Barberton with his wife and two children, one of whom was born in the U.S.