{"id":94446,"date":"2025-08-24T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94446\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:21:08","slug":"boxer-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-released-from-prison-in-mexico-awaiting-trial-over-alleged-cartel-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94446\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. released from prison in Mexico, awaiting trial over alleged cartel ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Boxer Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr.<\/a> was released Sunday from a prison in northern Mexico<\/a> where he was sent in August after being deported from the United States.<\/p>\n

The boxer, son of Mexican boxing great Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>, is awaiting trial<\/a> on accusations of involvement with cartels and illegally trafficking arms into Mexico.<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez was released after a judge in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo said he wouldn\u2019t have to remain in custody while awaiting trial, but that he was prohibited from leaving Mexico, a federal agent told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The judge also set a three-month period for further investigation into the case.<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s lawyer, Rub\u00e9n Fernando Ben\u00edtez Alvarez has described the claims against his client as \u201cspeculation\u201d and \u201curban legends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez was detained in the U.S. in July after a high-profile match against American Jake Paul<\/a> in Los Angeles. Mexican authorities had an order out for his arrest since 2023, but Mexico\u2019s president said authorities hadn\u2019t yet detained him because he was mostly in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The case against Ch\u00e1vez is part of a broader investigation that Mexican prosecutors launched in 2019 against the Sinaloa Cartel for organized crime, human trafficking, arms trafficking and drug trafficking, following a complaint filed by the United States.<\/p>\n

Fabiola S\u00e1nchez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Boxer Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. was released Sunday from a prison in northern Mexico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-94446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}