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The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said Friday that he hopes that boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. be deported to Mexico to fulfill a sentence for the alleged arms trafficking and organized crime, after he was arrested for ICE in Los Angeles on Thursday.
It was discovered that Chavez was in the country illegally last week after making fraudulent statements about a 2024 request for permanent residence based on his marriage to an American citizen.
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Julio César Chávez Jr. de México arrives for his Cruise weight boxing match against Jake Paul in the United States. In the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on June 28, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
“The hope is to be deported and comply with the sentence in Mexico,” Sheinbaum said during his daily news conference on Friday, referring to charges that Chavez faces for weapons and drug trafficking.
The 39 -year -old boxer, according to his lawyer Michael Goldstein, was collected on Wednesday by a large number of federal agents while traveling in a scooter in front of a house where he resides in the exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles of Studio City, near Hollywood.
The arrest occurred only days after former medium -weight champion lost a match against influencer converted into a boxer Jake Paul in Anaheim, California.
Chávez divided his time between the two countries. Immigration and Customs Compliance officers arrested Chávez to exaggerate a tourist visa with which he entered the United States in August 2023 and expired in February 2024, said the Department of National Security of the United States.
According to the department, Chávez Jr. has been accused of several crimes while in the United States
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The boxer Jake Paul fights Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. at the Honda Center on June 28, 2025. (Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn images)
On January 22, 2012, California Highwa Patrol arrested Chavez and accused him of Dui alcohol/drugs and driving without a license. On June 23, 2012, the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, condemned Chavez for the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to 13 days in jail and 36 months of probation.
On January 14, 2023, a district judge issued an arrest warrant against Chávez for the crime of organized crime with the purpose of committing crimes of arms trafficking and manufacturing crimes, in the modality of those who participate in bringing weapons clandestinely, ammunition, cartridges, explosives in the country; and those who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges and explosives without the corresponding permission.
On January 7, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested Chavez and accused him of illegal possession of an assault weapon and manufacturing or importation of a short cannon rifle. The court condemned Chavez for these positions.
The DHS also suspects that it is believed that Chávez is an affiliate of the Sinaloa cartel, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Chávez’s request was based on his marriage to an American citizen, who is connected to the Sinaloa cartel through a previous relationship with the now deceased son of the infamous leader of the Joaquín poster “El Chapo” Guzmán, according to DHS.
Jake Paul moves for a blow against Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. in the Honda Center. (Vásquez-Imagn images)
According to the DHS, in December 2024, citizenship and immigration services of the United States had made an ice derivation that Chavez was a “threat of atrocious public security”, but it was allowed to re -enter the country on January 4, 2025 after the records indicated that the Biden administration had not made it an immigration application priority.
The Biden administration allowed Chávez to re -enter the country and on probation to the country at the San Ysidro entrance port, agreeing DHS.
