By Ivan Pereira

Police extradited a 32-year-old fugitive back to Queens yesterday after  he fled the state two weeks ago following his alleged murder of his wife, the Queens district attorney said.

Jordan L. Hawes, a chef who lived on 30th Street, was awaiting arraignment as of Tuesday evening on several charges including second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the bloody killing of his wife Tara.

The 33-year-old special ed teacher was found on Feb. 2 in the couple’s apartment dead from blunt force trauma to her head and body and was surrounded by bloody knives and a baseball bat, according to DA Richard Brown.

Tara Hawes was last heard from on Jan. 30 and the following day  her husband sent a text message to a friend indicating that she would not come to work because of a family problem, Brown said.

Investigators added that on Feb. 1 another text was sent from her phone that also indicated she would be not coming into work and any time anyone called the wife’s phone, Jordan Hawes was the one who answered the call.

When police discovered Tara Hawes’s body, they found that her SUV and her husband were both missing, the DA said. The next day, detectives found a rambling note in the home, allegedly written by the defendant, that ended with, “I don’t know what . . . happened last night, but my life is destroyed. I killed my best friend,” according to the DA.

Jordan Hawes allegedly pawned his wife’s jewelry at a local pawn shop and attempted to withdraw money with her ATM cards, according to Brown.  Police tracked his cell phone to Connecticut and on Feb. 4 found him and the car at a Bridgeport McDonald’s, the DA said.

After surrendering himself to the Connecticut authorities, Jordan Hawes  suffered a seizure and was hospitalized for a short period, the authorities said.

If convicted on all of his crimes, he faces up to 25 years to life in prison, Brown said.