to finance his campaign for Governor of Tamaulipas in 1998. The agency report, issued on 1 August 2012, indicates that a political campaign manager of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) personally met with several cartel leaders because they "needed the money." In exchange, the drug trafficking organizations received protection from Tamaulipas' police. Arrest and conviction A Mexican judge ordered the arrest of Yarrington on 29 August 2012; the Interpol was searching his whereabouts in over 150 countries. He was finally arrested in Florence, Italy, on 9 April 2017. Yarrington pled guilty of money laundering and accepting bribes as governor on March 26, 2021. Ten other charges, related to drug trafficking, were dismissed. Yarrington can be sentenced to between eight and eleven years in prison, and his condominium in Puerto Isabel, Texas, was seized. Personal life Yarrington was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. He is married to Maria Antonieta Morales and has two children: María Antonieta and Tomás Antonio. In addition, during Yarrington's time as mayor of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, he developed a close friendship with George W. Bush, former governor of Texas and ex-president of the United States. References External links Official site International Arrest Warrant Issued for Mexico Governor — InSight Crime 1957 births Living people Governors of Tamaulipas Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni USC Sol Price School of Public Policy alumni Mexican politicians convicted of crimes Municipal presidents in Tamaulipas 20th-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians