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 principally been within the United States since.
Sheinbaum spoke a day after U.S. authorities introduced the boxer’s arrest in California for overstaying his visa and mendacity on a inexperienced card utility. He was being processed for expedited elimination, in accordance to 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 expenses that he faces for arms and drug trafficking.
The 39-year-old boxer, in accordance to 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 within the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio City close to Hollywood.
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The arrest got here solely days after the previous middleweight champion misplaced a match towards influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Anaheim, California.
He cut 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. Department of Homeland Security stated.
The company additionally stated Chávez submitted a number of fraudulent statements when he utilized for everlasting residency on April 2, 2024, based mostly 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.
