Woman accused of hiring hit man to kill Canadian husband extradited to Puerto Rico

Aurea Vazquez Rijos of Puerto Rico, left, sits inside a court room at the National Court in Madrid, Wednesday Dec. 18, 2013. (AP / Javier Lizon)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Puerto Rican woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her wealthy Canadian husband has been extradited to the U.S. territory after a lengthy international manhunt.

Aurea Vazquez Rijos is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. She was flown from Spain after a court there ordered her extradition in 2014 on the condition that she not receive the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole if convicted.

A U.S. grand jury had charged Vazquez in June 2008 with offering a man $3 million to kill real estate developer and Winnipeg native Adam Anhang. He was beaten and stabbed to death in Puerto Rico in 2005 as the couple walked near a bar he had bought for her. They had met that night to discuss their pending divorce.