The convicted Yard Burglar will be extradited tonight to Cambridge, where he faces trial for more allegations he broke into Harvard dormitories.

For the past two months, Andre K. Stuckey Jr. has been in the custody of California corrections officials following an early December in Los Angeles.

Stuckey's extradition will mark the first time in at least 25 years that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has formally returned a suspect to Cambridge from another state.

Stuckey, formerly of Long Beach, Calif., will arrive tonight in police custody on a flight from the state. HUPD officers will meet him at Logan International Airport and transport him to campus police headquarters, where he will be processed and then moved to Cambridge City Jail. The State Police and other law enforcement agencies have also been notified.

In Cambridge on Dec. 1, less than 72 hours after Stuckey was released on probation for committing multiple larcenies in the Yard, HUPD issued a new warrant for his arrest following another break-in at Matthews Hall. In conjunction with MIT and Cambridge police, the department mounted a massive city-wide search for the suspect but couldn't find him.

Four days later, Stuckey was arrested in California, after he was stopped by a University of California-Los Angeles police officer for "suspicious activity" near a UCLA dorm.

UCLA police officials said they were thankful Stuckey was caught before he could begin a crime spree like the one he committed at Harvard.

"If the officer hadn't observed him, he could have caused a lot of problems here at UCLA," Sergeant Phil Baguiao told the Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper.