Officers quickly surrounded Serrano-Vitorino, who was hiding in a ditch downhill from the westbound ramp onto I-70 from Highway 19. His hiding spot was between the ramp and the north outer road, site of a service station and a McDonald’s restaurant.

The Highway Patrol said he did not resist. “He looked exhausted,” Sgt. James Hedrick said shortly after the arrest.

The pickup was found about four miles west of the Nordman home, which is on the south side of I-70 just west of the Highway 19 interchange. The arrest scene is just across the interstate to the north. Officers said they suspected Serrano-Vitorino had used a creek culvert to get on the north side of the interstate.

Officers took him to the Montgomery County Jail in nearby Montgomery City, where he was held in lieu of $2 million bail for the four murder charges in Kansas. He was charged Wednesday afternoon with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and burglary in the death of Nordman. A preliminary hearing was set on that charge for April 28.

A spokesman for the Wyandotte County prosecutor’s office in Kansas City, Kan., said Wednesday that talks had just begun over which jurisdiction would try Serrano-Vitorino first. Unless he were to volunteer to be returned to Kansas, extradition would require action by the states’ governors.