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US immigration agents have arrested the famous Mexican boxer Julio Sesar Chavez, 39 years old, and plan to deport him to Mexico, where he has an “active arrest warrant … for participating in an organized crime,” US officials said on Thursday.
Less than a week before the arrest, former medium -weighing world champion was defeated in California’s match.
US officials say it is associated with the notorious Mexican Cartel Addicted Sinaloa. His lawyer denied the requirements.
“Nobody is higher than the law, including world -renowned athletes under the President of Trump,” the press secretary of the Internal Security Department (DHS) said in a statement after the arrest.
Chavez -Jr. was arrested by immigration officers and customs execution (ICE) in the studio, in Los -Angeles, on Thursday.
His struggle against Paul was in a neighboring Anaheim on Saturday. Chavez – Jr. – son of former boxing champion Julio Sesar Chavez, who is considered the best boxer in the history of Mexico.
The DHS statement states that “outstanding Mexican boxer and criminal illegal alien” is processed to “accelerate the removal”.
“Chavez is a Mexico citizen who has an active arrest warrant for participation in organized crime and firearms, ammunition and explosives,” the statement reads.
It adds that officials believe that it may be related to the Sinaloa Cartel, which President Donald Trump has appointed a terrorist organization on his first day in January.
Describing the alleged connection, the statement said he had applied for a permanent residence of the United States last year due to marriage to a US citizen “, which is related to Cartel Sinaloa through previous relations with the already dead son of Cartel Hoaquin ‘El Chap” Guzman.
According to US officials, Chavez -Jr. was arrested and imprisoned for several crimes in the United States, in many weapons.
In January 2024, he was arrested and later convicted of illegal storage of the attack, officials said.
In 2023, a local judge in the United States issued an arrest warrant for alleged arms trade for a criminal organization. Almost a decade earlier, in 2012, he was arrested for driving without a drug license and alcohol.
He also allegedly made several false statements from the US immigration bodies in his attempts to receive permanent residence and overcame a tourist visa that ended in February last year.
Chavez’s lawyer -the younger one called his arrest “no more than another headline to terrorize the Latin community.”
When asked about the charges of Cartel Connection, lawyer Michael Goldstein said NBC: “This is the first thing we have heard about these outrageous accusations.”
Two weeks before the contraction against Paul, Chavez -Jr. He talked with La Times About a large -scale humiliation in immigration raids that have been traveled into the city last month.
He said his coach was afraid to come to work because of the fear of deportation.
“I was even scared to tell you the truth. It is very ugly,” he said, accusing US immigration agents of “giving a society an example of violence.”
“I am from Synaloa, where everything is really ugly, and come here, to such a beautiful country with everything … And see how Trump attacks immigrants, Latinos, for no reason. Not to be with God makes you think that you know. Trump has made a bad decision.”
He added, “After all that happened, I would not want him to be deported.”
