Queens murder suspect sent to Mexico before being caught

A man suspected of murder will finally see the inside of a courtroom after being accidentally deported to Mexico by immigration, the NY Post reports. Oops!

Nikolay Natividad, 41, has been wanted since 1991, when his brother-in-law, Jamal Salas-Joya, was shot dead in front of residents as he ran along Junction Boulevard in Corona. The Peruvian native apparently took advantage of the United States’ deportation-vacation policy and won himself a one-way ticket to Mexico, the paper reports.

“He is Peruvian but he claimed to be a person illegally here from Mexico,” one law enforcement source said. “He got put into a different file somehow and got himself deported.”…

Queens cops and the FBI tracked him down, and waged an extradition battle that finally brought him back to New York.

Natividad allegedly killed his brother in-law during a family dinner at Machu Picchu, a Peruvian restaurant. Natividad waited for Salas-Joya to come outside, then shot him as he tried to run away. Salas-Joya’s mother ran outside and her son died in her arms. Then, police made matters worse.