SALT LAKE CITY -- A man accused of killing a Utah sheriff's deputy has agreed to be extradited to Arizona to a face a first-degree murder charge.
Sixth District Court records show Scott Curley signed an extradition waiver Thursday during a hearing in a Kanab court.
Curley, 23, is accused of using a rifle to fatally shoot Kane County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Harris during a foot chase a week ago in Fredonia, a tiny Arizona town south of the Utah border.
He was captured Monday near Kanab, about 310 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, after a four-day manhunt.
Curley is being held in a Utah jail on a $500,000 bond related to the Arizona charge and a $100,000 bond on Utah felony charges of attempted aggravated burglary and criminal mischief.
Also Thursday, 6th District Judge Paul D. Lyman set a Sept. 9 date for a hearing on Curley’s Utah charges.
Telephone messages left for Curley’s Utah attorney, William Leigh, and for the Coconino County, Ariz., Attorney David W. Rozema were not immediately returned Thursday.
It’s not clear when Arizona authorities will take Curley into custody.
Authorities say Curley laid in wait behind a tree to ambush the 41-year-old Harris.
Police were looking for Curley because he was suspected of trying to burglarize Fredonia High School and had allegedly held a school janitor at gunpoint.
Following the shooting, Curley fled on foot into the rugged high desert wilderness along the Utah-Arizona border.
His capture just before 1 a.m. Monday came after a resident tipped police that a man with a rifle had tried to break into his home.
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