In an update a story we brought you on Feb. 18th, the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, Saturday (today), reports a man accused of pushing a co-worker off the top of a grain bin in southwest Iowa, who was found in Mexico and returned to the United States, is now being held in the Fremont County Jail, after being extradited from Texas.

Pedro Andrade

37-year old Pedro Andrade, of Muscatine, faces charges that include Attempted Murder, a Class B Felony, Willful Injury a Class C Felony, and Flight to Avoid Prosecution, a Class D Felony. He was being held without bond in the Fremont County Jail, pending an appearance before a Magistrate.

Last month, officials with the U.S. Marshals Service said Andrade was taken into custody with the assistance of Mexican authorities, outside Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (about 3 hours west of Cancun), and extradited to Houston, Texas.

Background:

On Oct. 10th, 2019 the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office received a call at around 12:43-p.m., about a male construction worker who had fallen approximately 60 feet, or 5 1/2 stories, from the catwalk above an industrial grain bin in the 300 block of Washington Street, in Hamburg, and was unconscious. The man was transported to Grape Community Hospital and then transferred to Nebraska Medicine for treatment of life threatening injuries.

Four days later, the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office received a report that the man had awoken from a coma and said he was pushed from the platform by a co-worker, Pedro Andrade. Deputies allege that Andrade, had unhooked the victim’s safety lines and pushed him from the catwalk, onto a gravel parking lot after discovering an affair between the victim and Andrade’s wife.

Andrade was contacted and agreed to meet with deputies, however, the sheriff’s office received information that Andrade and his wife fled the country prior to the interview. Deputies received an arrest warrant for Andrade and the information was sent to the US Marshall’s Service for assistance.