MEXICO CITY — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned Friday that Mexico hadn’t beforehand arrested boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. on a 2023 arrest order as a result of he had principally been in the USA.
Sheinbaum spoke a day after U.S. authorities announced the boxer’s arrest in California for overstaying his visa and mendacity on a inexperienced card software. He was being processed for expedited removing, in response to U.S. authorities.
“The hope is that he will probably be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico,” Sheinbaum mentioned throughout her every day information briefing Friday, referring to prices that he faces for arms and drug trafficking.
The 39-year-old boxer, in response to his legal professional Michael Goldstein, was picked up Wednesday by a lot of federal brokers whereas he was using a scooter in entrance of a house the place he resides within the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio Metropolis.
The arrest got here solely days after the previous middleweight champion lost a match towards influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Anaheim, California.
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 mentioned.
The company additionally mentioned 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. Her daughter is a granddaughter of imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
U.S. officers mentioned Chávez is believed to have ties to the highly effective Sinaloa Cartel, which is blamed for a good portion of Mexico’s drug violence.