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Former boxing star Julio Saza Chavez defended his son on Monday His arrest Last week, by a US immigrant employee outside his home in Los Angeles.
Julio Seza Chavez Junior He was accused of overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application. Additionally, he has an active warrant for arrests in Mexico regarding alleged weapons and drug trafficking and possible bonds with the Sinaloan cartel.
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Giulio Cesar Chavez Jr. will pose in the belt along with his father Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. after beating Sebastian Zvik in the WBC World Middleweight Title Match in Los Angeles on June 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, file)
Elder Chavez spoke to the Mexican media about his son.
“It’s complicated, there are a lot of stories, but we’re calm because we know our son’s innocence,” he told Elle Herald’s newspaper. “My son is anything you want, but he is not a criminal and will lessen everything he is being blamed.”
Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gerz Manelo began Sunday after the Sinaloa Cartel filed complaints against organized crime, arms trafficking and drug trafficking after the investigation of young boxers filed the US against the Sinaloa Cartel.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was in discussion with his father’s legendary boxer, Giulio Cesar Chavez, at a press conference on July 10, 2012 to promote his middleweight championship match against Argentine’s Sergio Martinez in Los Angeles. (AP Photos/Reed Saxon, File)
Chavez Jr.’s lawyers demanded at least five injunctions in Mexico, but they were all denied because the boxers were in the US, said Gertz Manelo.
“He knows a lot of people. We live in Culiacan. It’s impossible to know all the people who do illegal things, but that doesn’t mean anything,” Chavez Sr. said. “I met everyone in my time, but they didn’t follow me.”
He vowed that if he was moved to Mexico, his son would fight the Chargers.
Chavez Jr. was arrested a few days after he lost Jake Paul in a boxing match.
Jake Paul moves on to a hit with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at the Honda Center. (Vasquez-Imagn image)
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“Why did they make him fight? My son has been paying taxes in the US for three years, and now in Mexico he is denounced money laundering,” Elder Chavez added. “Yes, he knows those people, but that doesn’t mean I’m a drug trafficker. Let’s trust the law.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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