Mexico City – Julio César Chávez JR. To Mexico, where he wanted the alleged Cartel’s relations, following his arrest in the United States to overcome his visa and to lie on the application of a green card.
An official told Associated Press, provided that his identity was not disclosed because they were not allowed to publicly talk about the matter.
Chavez, 39, had a memorandum of arrest in Mexico due to the smuggling of alleged weapons and drugs and its relationships with Sinalo Cartel. Alejandro Gertz Maniro, the Mexico Prosecutor, said the investigation of Chavez began in 2019.
The boxer, the son of the legendary Mexican boxer, Julio Cesar Chavez, was arrested after July 3 of his prominent fight with Jake Paul in California.
File – Julio Cesar Chavez Junior reaches his boxing match in Tarafa against Jake Ball, in Anaim, California, June 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)
Mexican President Claudia Shinbom said after the arrest that she hoped that the boxer would be deported to confront his concern.
Chavez’s father was one of the massive celebrities in the 1980s and nineties who mixed social circles with drug dealers and claimed that they were friends with Lord Amado Carillo Fuentes.
The younger Shavez fought drug addiction in most of his career in boxing, the failure of drug tests, the suspension service and the weight loss terribly while it was widely criticized for his intermittent dedication in this sport.
Chavez won the WBC Mediterranean title in 2011 and defended it three times. Participate in the ring with the great generations of generations Caneo álvarez and Sergio Martinez, lost to both.
In 2012, he was drunk driving in Los Angeles and sentenced to 13 days in prison. In January 2024, he was arrested on charges of weapons. Police said that he owns ghost rifles similar to AR. He was later released on a bond worth $ 50,000, and was supervised by a residential drug therapy facility. The case is still pending, as Chavez is applying regularly.
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