---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3186"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3186"
heading: "Secretary of State to surrender fugitive"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3186"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 209 — Extradition"
---

# §3186. Secretary of State to surrender fugitive


The Secretary of State may order the person committed under sections [3184](/usc/18/3184.md) or [3185](/usc/18/3185.md) of this title to be delivered to any authorized agent of such foreign government, to be tried for the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) of which charged.

Such agent may hold such person in custody, and take him to the territory of such foreign government, pursuant to such treaty.

A person so accused who escapes may be retaken in the same manner as any person accused of any [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2).


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 824.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 653 (R.S. § 5272).

Changes were made in phraseology and surplusage was deleted.