Federal agents boarded a Disney cruise ship in Florida on Friday to arrest a Guatemalan judge who is one of dozens of soccer officials charged by US prosecutors investigating corruption in the sport's world governing body FIFA.
A spokeswoman for the FBI said that Hector Trujillo, 62, was arrested by US Customs and Border Protection agents who went to his cabin door.
Another law enforcement source said Trujillo was on a Disney cruise ship docked at Port Canaveral, Florida when he was arrested.
Trujillo is scheduled to appear in a federal court in Orlando on Friday afternoon.
A lawyer for Trujillo could not immediately be contacted for comment.
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Soccer bosses from across South and Central America, including Trujillo, were among 16 people charged on Thursday by US prosecutors with bribery and kickback schemes amounting to more than $US200 million ($A272.48 million) for marketing and broadcast rights to tournaments and matches.
The total number of indictments is now 41 in a probe spanning dozens of countries.
FIFA is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis with criminal investigations into the sport under way in the United States and Switzerland.
Its president Sepp Blatter is among officials who have been suspended by its own ethics committee.
At FIFA headquarters in Zurich on Friday, FIFA executive committee members Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay and Alfredo Hawit of Honduras were suspended from soccer for 90 days after their arrests at a hotel in the city on Thursday morning.
Ironically, the pair travelled to the Swiss capital to attend an executive committee meeting to discuss reforms, and seven months after a first round of arrests and charges.
Napout is president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) and Hawit is head of the CONCACAF confederation that runs the sport in North, Central America and the Caribbean.
At a news conference in Washington on Thursday, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the corruption allegations against Trujillo presented a contradiction with his position as a judge on Guatemala's top court.
Trujillo, the secretary general of the Guatemalan soccer federation, was "purportedly dispensing justice by day while allegedly soliciting bribes and selling his influence within FIFA," Lynch said.
