Department of Homeland Security

A deed filed Monday at the Schuylkill County courthouse shows the Department of Homeland Security bought the former Big Lots warehouse in Tremont Twp. for more than $119.5 million in January. Evidence points to plans to use the 1.3-million-square-foot building to house immigrant detainees.

Jugoslav Vidic, an ethnic Serbian, was convicted in 1998 of chopping off a Croatian man's arm for shaking hands with Croatia's president in 1991 during strife between Serbs and Croats. He later pleaded guilty to lying about it when he applied for refugee status and permanent resident status in the United States.