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Mexican President Claudia Shinbam said on Friday that he hoped that boxer Julio Sesar Chavez Junior will be sent to Mexico to serve a punishment for alleged arms smuggling and organized crime after Ice was arrested by Ice at Los Angeles on Thursday.
Chavez was found illegally in the country last week, when he made cheating statements on the 2024 application for a permanent residence on the basis of his marriage to an American citizen.
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Julio Sesar Chavez Jr. of Mexico comes to Honda Center in California on June 28, 2025 for his cruiserweight boxing match against Jake Paul of USA. (Patrick T. Follen / AFP)
“Hopefully he will be deported and sentenced in Mexico,” Shinbam said during his Daily News briefing on Friday, referring to the allegations that Chavez faces arms and drug trafficking.
According to a 39 -year -old boxer, his lawyer Michael Goldstein, on Wednesday, a large number of federal agents were raised, while he was riding a scooter in front of a house where he lives in the Upskail Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio City near Hollywood.
The arrest was made by the former Middleweight Champion a few days after losing a match against the affected-turn-Boxer Jake Paul in Anahem, California.
Chavez divided his time between the two countries. The US Department of Homeland Security said the immigration and customs enforcement officers detained Chavez to eliminate a tourist visa, in which they entered the US in August 2023 and ended in February 2024.
According to the department, Chavez Junior has been accused of several crimes in the US
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Boxer Jake Paul fights against Julio Sesar Chavez Junior at Honda Center on 28 June 2025. (Gary a.
On January 22, 2012, California Hivi Petrol arrested Chavez and accused him of driving DUI alcohol/drugs and unlicensed. On June 23, 2012, Los Angeles’ County, California’s Superior Court convicted the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to 13 days of jail and 36 months prison.
On January 14, 2023, a District Judge issued an arrest warrant for the crime of organized crime with the aim of committing crimes of arms smuggling and manufacturing crimes, which in the methods of weapons, ammunition, ammunition, cartridges, explosions participating in the country; And those who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges and explosives without this permit.
On January 7, 2024, Los Angeles Police Department arrested Chavez and accused him of illegal possession of an attack and construction or importing a small rifle. The court convicted Chavez of these allegations. ,
DHS also suspects that Chavez is allegedly considered to be a related foreign terrorist organization Sinaloa Cartel. According to DHS, Chavez’s application was based on his marriage to an American citizen, associated with Sinaloa Cartel, which is now connected to the infamous cartel leader Jokin “L Chapo” Gujman’s now through a prior relationship with the dead son.
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Jeek Paul Honda Center proceeds for a hit against Sesar Chavez Junior. (Vaskes-imagal picture)
According to DHS, in December 2024, American citizenship and immigration services made a referral for ice that Chavez was an “egoistic public safety threat”, but he was allowed to re -establish the country on 4 January 2025, as records indicated that the Biden administration did not make him an immigration enforcement priority.
The Biden administration allowed Chavez to re -enter the country and entered the country at San Yasidro port of entry to DHS.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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