Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was delivered by U.S. authorities to Mexico, where he had an arrest warrant against him, and is now in a maximum security prison in Hermosillo, in the northern state of Sonora.
According to the National Detention Registry of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), the former world champion was handed over by the U.S. after spending a little over a month in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE) detention center in that country.
This morning, during her morning press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the deportation of the Mexican boxer.
“I understand that he was deported, I don’t know if he was deported yesterday or today morning, but we were informed that he was going to arrive in Mexico (…) Yes, we were informed that he was going to arrive in Mexico,” said the President during her morning press conference at the National Palace.
Without providing information on the prison where the former middleweight world champion is being held, Sheinbaum highlighted the “arrest warrant” against him in Mexico since 2023 for organized crime and arms trafficking, which was confirmed last month by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
“There was an arrest warrant, that was communicated several weeks ago when he was detained there (in the U.S.), there was an arrest warrant in Mexico from the Attorney General’s Office,” he said.
The fighter, son of the legendary Julio César Chávez, was facing legal proceedings in the United States, where he was arrested in early July for illegal entry and is accused of alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.
According to the file, Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested on Monday morning at the Dennis Deconcini border crossing in Nogales, Sonora, and was immediately detained in the state’s Federal Center for Social Readaptation (Cefereso).
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., 39, was arrested on July 3 in the United States. The arrest took place after the fighter lost in a fight in Anaheim (USA) to Jake Paul.
The U.S. government accuses him of having ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, in addition to not having documents to be legally in the country.
Although he was declared a “serious threat to public safety” in the country in December 2024, U.S. authorities ultimately determined that his case was not a priority and he was not arrested at that time.
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) confirmed that the son of the Mexican boxing legend has had an arrest warrant in Mexico since 2023 for organized crime and arms trafficking, according to EFE.
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