Prosecutor: Cops sought Zimmerman charges SANFORD, Fla., March 28 (UPI) -- County prosecutors refused a Sanford, Fla., police arrest-warrant request early in the Trayvon Martin killing probe, a special prosecutor said. The police department requested the arrest warrant from the Seminole County State Attorney's office, but were overruled by its prosecutors, special prosecutor Angela Corey told The Miami Herald. "I can tell you that the police went to the state attorney with a capias request, meaning, 'We're through with our investigation and here it is for you,'" Corey told the newspaper. A capias is a request for charges to be filed. A Sanford police report indicated the case was categorized as "homicide/negligent manslaughter," the Herald said. "The state attorney impaneled a grand jury, but before anything else could be done, the governor stepped in and asked us to pick it up in midstream," she said. Gov. Rick Scott replaced Seminole State Attorney Norm Wolfinger with Corey, a state attorney in Jacksonville, Fla. The Seminole County State Attorney's Office declined to comment on whether its prosecutors ever recommended against filing charges. ABC News reported Chris Serino, the lead homicide detective on the case, recommended charging George Zimmerman with manslaughter the night of Feb. 26, after the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer shot and killed Martin, an unarmed teenager, in a Sanford gated community. The network said Serino was instructed not to charge Zimmerman after Wolfinger's office said there was not enough evidence to prosecute the case. Zimmerman, an insurance underwriter and college student, was not charged, triggering a nationwide crusade on the dead teen's behalf. Earlier statements by Bill Lee, the Sanford police chief who has since stepped aside temporarily, indicated there was no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman. Several prosecutors have said it would be difficult to try Zimmerman because of the state's so-called stand-your-ground law, allowing people in Florida to shoot others if they feel threatened with serious harm or death.