Former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has been jailed in his native Mexico after his arrest in the United States in July.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Mexican boxer was\u00a0arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers<\/a>\u00a0in Studio City, Los Angeles, five days after\u00a0fighting Jake Paul in nearby Anaheim.<\/a><\/p>\n Mexican prosecutors allege the 39-year-old acted as a henchman for the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which Washington designated a foreign terrorist organisation earlier this year.<\/p>\n He 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 Chavez Jr’s lawyer and family have rejected the accusation that he has cartel connections.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"