SAO PAULO — Brazil's federal police arrested Argentine golfer Ángel Cabrera on Thursday for extradition to his homeland to face charges for several crimes allegedly committed from 2016 to last year, two officers said.
Cabrera, who has won both the Masters and U.S. Open, was on Interpol's red code list.
Police said in a statement that the arrest was made in an upper class area of Rio de Janeiro, without announcing the suspect's name. It described him only as a 51-year-old Argentine.
Two federal police officers based in Rio separately confirmed to The Associated Press that Cabrera was the man arrested.