MEXICO CITY — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum stated Friday that Mexico hadn’t beforehand arrested boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. on a 2023 arrest order, as a result of he had been largely been in the US since.
Sheinbaum spoke a day after U.S. authorities introduced the boxer’s arrest in Los Angeles for overstaying his visa and mendacity on a inexperienced card software. He was being processed for expedited removing, based on U.S. authorities.
“The hope is that he will probably be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico,” Sheinbaum stated throughout her each day information briefing Friday, referring to prices that Chávez faces for arms and drug trafficking.
The 39-year-old boxer, based on his lawyer Michael Goldstein, was picked up Wednesday by numerous federal brokers whereas he was driving a scooter in entrance of a house the place he resides in Studio Metropolis.
The arrest got here solely days after the previous middleweight champion misplaced a match in opposition to influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Anaheim.
Chávez break up his time between each nations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained Chávez for overstaying a vacationer visa that he entered the U.S. with in August 2023 and expired in February 2024, the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety stated.
The company additionally stated Chávez submitted a number of fraudulent statements when he utilized for everlasting residency on April 2, 2024, primarily based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen, Frida Muñoz. She is the mom of a granddaughter of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
U.S. officers stated that he is believed to have ties to the highly effective Sinaloa Cartel, which is blamed for a good portion of Mexico’s drug violence.
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