Former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has been jailed in his native Mexico after his arrest in the United States in July.<\/p>\n
The Mexican boxer was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers<\/a> in Studio City, Los Angeles, five days after fighting Jake Paul in nearby Anaheim.<\/a><\/p>\n The 39-year-old has now been detained in a prison in the northern Mexico state of Sonora, the country’s national arrest registry showed on Tuesday, as he awaits charges.<\/p>\n It said that the boxer was arrested at a checkpoint in the border city of Nogales on Tuesday morning and transferred to a federal institution in Sonora’s capital of Hermosillo.<\/p>\n Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum said in her daily news conference that he had been deported.<\/p>\n She previously said there was a warrant for his arrest for charges of arms trafficking and organised crime, and that prosecutors were working on the case.<\/p>\n The Mexican attorney general’s office declined to comment.<\/p>\n Chavez Jr, who held the WBC middleweight title from 2011 to 2012, is the son of three-weight world champion Julio Cesar Chavez.<\/p>\n Mexican prosecutors allege he acted as a henchman for the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which Washington designated a foreign terrorist organisation earlier this year.<\/p>\n Chavez Jr’s lawyer and family have rejected the accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has been jailed in his native Mexico after his arrest in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-79548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}