The former governor of Tamaulipas who was captured in Italy last spring has been extradited to the United States, according to Mexican media outlets.
The former governor of Tamaulipas who was captured in Italy last spring has been extradited to the United States, according to Mexican media outlets.
Mexico City newspaper Excélsior reported that Tomás Yarrington Rubalcaba left Italy early Friday morning and will arrive in Houston later this evening. Yarrington had been in custody in Florence, Italy since April 2017, when Italian police arrested the fugitive former lawmaker in a restaurant.
Yarrington, who served as mayor of Matamoros from 1993 to 1995 and governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005, had been on the run since 2012 after the Mexican Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation into his ties to the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas and issued a warrant for his arrest.
He was subsequently indicted in Brownsville’s federal court in 2013 on multiple charges, including racketeering, international drug trafficking, money laundering, bank fraud and tax evasion.
The indictment also accused him of cooperating with the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas since 1998, allowing them to operate unimpeded in Tamaulipas.
