Wade Yates-Taui to be extradited from US charged with the unlawful killing of Max Waller on Gold Coast

PATCHED Mongol and Gold Coast cage fighter Wade Yates-Taui will be extradited from the US this week, charged with the unlawful killing of a Bandidos associate.

PATCHED Mongol member and Gold Coast cage fighter Wade Yates-Taui will be extradited from the US to Australia this week, charged with the unlawful killing of a Bandidos associate on the glitter strip.

Yates-Taui is expected to face Southport Magistrates Court on Friday.

Police have refused to confirm his arrival time, but sources said Gold Coast detectives had travelled to the US to escort him home to face charges over the death of Max Waller at Broadbeach last June.

An extradition hearing in the US Federal Court heard Yates-Taui asked an associate to “antagonise” Waller and then watched as Waller was stabbed to death with a steak knife designed by English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

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A criminal complaint filed by US prosecutors unveiled details of Waller’s death and the case Queensland police have built against Yates-Taui and alleged co-conspirators.

Yates-Taui fled the Gold Coast on December 10, a day before he was due to testify before a Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission probe into his alleged involvement in the fatal stabbing of Waller, according to the complaint.

The court documents allege that when Waller’s body, suffering 28 stab wounds from a 15-21mm wide straight blade knife, was found on June 23 last year outside a Gold Coast apartment complex, Carmel by the Sea, police searched a park across the road and found Waller’s mobile phone.

The phone “revealed SMS conversations between Waller and Cohen Andrew Smith as well as between Waller and Benjamin Thomas Mortimer’’, the complaint said.

Analysis of the phone records allegedly found Smith and Mortimer had been trying to arrange a meeting with Waller. Yates-Taui and Mortimer were allegedly upset with Waller and called him “a dog’’.

Police allege a search of the hotel Yates-Taui and Mortimer left before the killing found a set of Jamie Oliver-brand steak knives matching the knife used in the assault. They were sold in a set of six, but allegedly only five were located.

Since Waller’s death, Yates-Taui has partied with chapters of bikie gangs in Thailand and the US, where he celebrated the 44th anniversary of the Mongols and rubbed shoulders with the gang’s international president, “Lil Dave” Santillan.

The breakthrough came just before midnight on Anzac Day at an address just outside Los Angeles, when US marshals closed in on Yates-Taui after a 10-month probe involving Gold Coast detectives, the state homicide squad and officers from Taskforce Maxima.