{"id":161258,"date":"2025-08-20T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161258\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:05:10","slug":"julio-cesar-chavez-jr-deported-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161258\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. deported to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Boxer Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. has been deported to Mexico, where he\u2019s wanted<\/a> for alleged cartel ties, following his arrest<\/a> in the U.S. for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application.<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez was handed over by authorities and admitted to a prison outside of the city of Hermosillo, in the northern state of Sonora, an official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity Tuesday because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.<\/p>\n

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the news at her daily news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand he was deported. I don\u2019t know if it was yesterday or this morning, but we were informed that he was arriving in Mexico,\u201d Sheinbaum said.<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez, 39, had a warrant for his arrest in Mexico for alleged arms and drug trafficking and ties to the Sinaloa cartel. Alejandro Gertz Manero, Mexico\u2019s attorney general, said the investigation into Ch\u00e1vez started in 2019.<\/p>\n

The boxer, who is the son of Mexican boxing great Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>, was arrested July 3, days after his high-profile fight with Jake Paul<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n

Sheinbaum said after the arrest that she hoped the boxer would be deported<\/a> to face his charges.<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s father was a massive celebrity<\/a> in the 1980s and \u201890s who mixed social circles with drug dealers and claimed to have been friends with drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The iconic fighter defended his son<\/a> following his arrest but has not spoken publicly since the deportation.<\/p>\n

The younger Ch\u00e1vez has battled drug addiction for much of his boxing career, failing drug tests<\/a>, serving suspensions and egregiously missing weight while being widely criticized for his intermittent dedication to the sport.<\/p>\n

Chavez won the WBC middleweight title in 2011 and defended it three times. He shared the ring with generational greats Canelo \u00c1lvarez<\/a> and Sergio Martinez, losing to both.<\/p>\n

In 2012, he was convicted of drunken driving<\/a> in Los Angeles and sentenced to 13 days in jail. In January 2024, he was arrested on gun charges. Police said he possessed two AR-style ghost rifles. He was later freed on a $50,000 bond and on the condition that he went to a residential drug treatment facility. The case is still pending, with Ch\u00e1vez reporting his progress regularly.<\/p>\n

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AP boxing: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/boxing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Boxer Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. has been deported to Mexico, where he\u2019s wanted for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[93469,21354,276,1613,15581,4219,32874,20228,57,409,7902,29999,1612,2936,2222,2938,30004,62,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-161258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alejandro-gertz-manero","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-central-america","12":"tag-claudia-sheinbaum","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-drug-cartels","15":"tag-drug-crimes","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-jake-paul","19":"tag-julio-csar-chvez-jr","20":"tag-latin-america","21":"tag-law-enforcement","22":"tag-mexico","23":"tag-prisons","24":"tag-sergio-martinez","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}