Angel Cabrera has been arrested in Argentina on multiple charges
Angel Cabrera has been arrested and will be extradited to Argentina, where he will be charged with multiple counts.
It wasn’t that long ago that Angel Cabrera was donning the green jacket as a Masters champion. Just a decade later, he has been arrested in Brazil and will be transported to Argentina where he will face charges surrounding a history of abuse and violence.
There is a bevy of charges reportedly surrounding Cabrera, which include assault, theft, and illegal intimidation and repeated disrespect to authorities. These charges stem from at least a five-year period of alleged incidents.
You can head back to 2017 to see this isn’t the first time he has had an incident, when injuries were caused to a former female partner of his, by the name of Cecilia Torres.
It’s a disturbing turn of events for the multi-time major winner. He first won the U.S. Open in 2007 at Oakmont by a single shot over Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods. He then won the Masters in 2009 over Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry in a three-man playoff.
According to the Associated Press, only a report based on anonymity is the reason we know that Cabrera is the man who is being held. His name was not in any of the reports, just a section detailing that a 51-year-old man was taken from an upper-class area of Rio De Janeiro.
"“Two federal police officers based in Rio separately confirmed to The Associated Press that Cabrera was the man arrested. Both agreed to give the information only if granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the topic publicly.”"
It isn’t just his former partner, but also his ex-wife, Silvia Rivadero, who is pressing charges. Torres claimed to have been punched, threatened, and that Cabrera tried to run her over with a car. Rivadero has filed two separate charges. The alleged incidents range from 2016-2020.
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I’m sure more news will come out once Cabrera has reached Argentina. For now, he sits in Brazil, and will likely face a long and drawn out process in the courts, and is unlikely to ever play on the PGA Tour or Champions Tour again.