Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr deported from US: Authorities

Son of a legendary erstwhile satellite champion boxer, Julio Cesar Chavez is deported by the US, facing charges of arms trafficking and organised transgression successful Mexico.

Former champion boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has been detained successful Mexico aft being deported by the United States to look cause trafficking-related charges, Mexican authorities said.

Chavez, the lad of legendary boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, was handed implicit astatine midday connected Monday and transferred to a situation successful Mexico’s northwest Sonora state, according to accusation published Tuesday connected the country’s National Detention Registry.

“He was deported,” President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters, adding that determination was an apprehension warrant for him successful Mexico.

She antecedently said determination was a warrant for his apprehension for charges of arms trafficking and organised crime, and that prosecutors were moving connected the case.

The Mexican lawyer general’s bureau declined to comment.

Chavez Jr, the lad of a legendary erstwhile satellite champion boxer, Julio Cesar Chavez, was detained by US migration authorities soon aft losing successful a sold-out lucifer to American influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

Retired boxer Julio Cesar Chavez urges connected his lad Julio arsenic helium fights against Sergio Martinez during their rubric bout astatine the Thomas & Mack Center successful Las Vegas, Nevada, the US, September 15, 2012 [Steve Marcus/Reuters]

Mexican prosecutors allege helium acted arsenic a henchman for the almighty Sinaloa Cartel, which Washington designated a “foreign violent organisation” earlier this year.

Chavez Jr’s lawyer and household person rejected the accusations.

Mexico’s nationalist registry showed that the boxer was arrested astatine a checkpoint successful the Mexican borderline metropolis of Nogales astatine 11:53am (18:53 GMT) and transferred to a national instauration successful Sonora’s superior of Hermosillo. Chavez Jr was wearing a achromatic hoodie and reddish sneakers, it said.

Chavez Jr won the World Boxing Council middleweight title successful 2011, but mislaid the rubric the pursuing year.

His vocation has been overshadowed by controversies, including a suspension aft investigating affirmative for a banned substance successful 2009, and a good and suspension aft investigating affirmative for cannabis successful 2013.