American immigration agents have arrested the famous Mexican boxer Julio Sesar Chavez Junior, 39, and plans to send them to Mexico, where they have “an active arrest warrant … to join the organized crime” to join the organized crime “, US authorities announced on Thursday.
Less than a week before his arrest, the former Middleweight World Champion was defeated by a border Jake Paul, who was influenced in a match in California.
US officials say it is affiliated to the notorious Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel. His lawyer denied claims.
A spokesman for the Homeland Security Department (DHS) said in a statement, “No one is above the law, including world famous athletes,”
Chavez JR was arrested on Thursday by immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) officers at Studio City, Los Angeles.
His fight against Paul was in a nearby Anahem on Saturday. Chavez Junior is the son of former boxing champion Julio Caesar Chavez SR, who is considered the best boxer in the history of Mexico.
The DHS statement said that “leading Mexican boxer and criminal illegal foreign” are being processed to “remove”.
The statement said, “Chavez is a Mexican citizen, who has an active arrest warrant in Mexico to join the fireholder and smuggling firearms, ammunition and explosives.”
It states that officials believe that he may be associated with Sinaloa Cartel, which was nominated by President Donald Trump as a terrorist organization on his first day in the office in January.
Describing the alleged connection, the statement said that he applied to marry an American citizen for the US permanent residence last year, “connected to Sinaloa Cartel, who is now connected to the infamous cartel leader Jokin ‘L Chapo’ Gujman” through a pre -relationship with the dead son.
According to US officials, Chavez JR has been arrested for several crimes in the US and involved in jail, including several weapons.
Officials said in January 2024, he was arrested and later convicted for illegal possession of an attack.
In 2023, a local judge in the US issued a arrest warrant against him for allegedly smuggling for a criminal organization. Nearly a decade ago, in 2012, he was arrested for driving without license under impact drugs or alcohol.
He allegedly made several fraud statements in his efforts to get a permanent residence for American immigration officials and over-stayed a tourist visa ending last February.
A lawyer from Chavez Junior called his arrest “nothing more than another title to terrorize the Latin community”.
Asked about a cartel connection allegations, lawyer Michael Goldstein Told NBC: “This is the first time we have heard of these derogatory allegations.”
Two weeks before boxing against Paul, Chavez Junior had a public exercise in La. He spoke to La Times Regarding large -scale ups in the immigration raids which have been swept away in the city in the last month.
He said that due to fear of exile, his own trainer was afraid of coming to work.
“I was also scared, to tell you the truth. It’s very ugly,” he said, “Giving an example of violence to the community”, accusing agents.
“I am from Sinaloa, where things are really ugly, and to come here, in such a beautiful country with everything … and see Trump, attacking the immigrants, Latino, without any reason. Not being with God. You think you know everything. Trump took a bad decision.”
He said: “Whatever has happened, after that, I do not want to be deported.”
