Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr deported from US: Authorities | US-Mexico Border News
The son of a former legendary world champion, Julio Cesar Chavez is expelled by the United States, faced with accusations of arms trafficking and organized crime in Mexico.
Former boxer champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr was detained in Mexico after being expelled by the United States to deal with drug trafficking, the Mexican authorities said.
Chavez, the son of the legendary boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, was delivered on Monday at noon and transferred to a prison in the state of northwest of Sonora in Mexico, according to information published on Tuesday on the country’s national detention register.
“He was expelled,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum, to journalists, adding that there was an arrest warrant against him in Mexico.
She previously declared that there was an arrest warrant against arms trafficking and organized crime, and that the prosecutors worked on the case.
The office of the Mexican Attorney General refused to comment.
Chavez Jr, the son of a former legendary world boxer, Julio Cesar Chavez, was arrested by the US immigration authorities shortly after losing in a closed counter match against an American influencer who became the boxer Jake Paul.
Mexican prosecutors allege to have acted as a henchman for the powerful cartel of Sinaloa that Washington has appointed a “foreign terrorist organization” earlier this year.
Chavez JR’s lawyer and family rejected the accusations.
The national register of Mexico has shown that the boxer had been stopped at a control point in the Mexican border city of Nugales at 11:53 am (18:53 GMT) and transferred to a federal institution in the capital of Sonora in Hermosillo. Chavez Jr wore a black hooded sweatshirt and red sneakers, he said.
Chavez JR won the average boxing of the boxing championship in the Boxing World Council in 2011, but lost the title the following year.
His career was overshadowed by controversies, including suspension after having tested positive for a prohibited substance in 2009, and a fine and suspension after testing cannabis in 2013.
