Famous Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez -Jr. arrested by American immigration

US immigration agents have arrested the famous Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., 39, and plan to deport him to Mexico, where he has an “active arrest order … for his participation in organized crime,” US officials said on Thursday.

Less than a week before his arrest, the former world category world champion was defeated by the Book, turned Jake Paul into a California match.

US officials say he is associated with the notorious Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa. His lawyer denied the claims.

“No one is above the law with President Trump – including world -renowned athletes,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) said in a statement by arrest.

Chavez Jr. was arrested by immigration and customs officers (ICE) at Studio City, Los Angeles, on Thursday.

His fight against Paul was in nearby Anaheim on Saturday. Chavez Jr. is the son of former boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez CP, who is considered the best boxer in Mexico’s history.

The DHS statement said that “prominent Mexican boxer and criminal illegal alien” is processed for “accelerated removal”.

“Chavez is a Mexican citizen who has an active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and firearm traffic, ammunition and explosives,” the statement said.

It adds that employees believe that it can be associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, which President Donald Trump described as a terrorist organization on his first day back in January.

Describing the alleged relationship, the statement said he had applied for a permanent residence in the United States last year because of his marriage to a US citizen, “who is associated with the Sinaloa Cartel through a previous relationship with the already deceased son of the Cartel Cartel Cartel Cartel.

According to US officials, Chavez Jr. has been arrested and closed for several crimes in the United States, many of whom are involved in weapons.

In January 2024, he was arrested and later convicted of illegal possession of a weapon of attack, officials said.

In 2023, a local judge in the United States issued an arrest warrant against him for suspected trafficking for a criminal organization. For nearly a decade earlier, in 2012, he was arrested for driving without a testimony under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

He also claims that he has made numerous fraudulent statements to US immigration authorities in his attempt to receive a permanent residence and suspend a tourist visa that has expired last February.

Chavez Jr.’s lawyer called his arrest “Nothing more than another title to terrorize the Latin community.”

Asked about the allegations of a cartel connection, lawyer Michael Goldstein told the NBC: “This is the first thing we have heard of these outrageous statements.”

Two weeks before the match against Paul, Chavez -Jr. held a public training in LA, where He talks to La Times For the massive leg of the immigration raids that have been moving the city over the last month.

He said his own coach was afraid to come to work for fear of deportation.

“I was even scared to tell you the truth. It’s very ugly,” he said, accusing US immigration agents of “Community giving an example of violence.”

“I’m from Sinaloa where things are really ugly, and to come here, in such a beautiful country with everything … and see Trump attack immigrants, Latinos for no reason. Don’t be with God to think that you know everything. Trump made a bad decision.”

He added: “After everything that happened, I wouldn’t want to be deported.”