Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. arrived in Mexico and was immediately transferred to the Federal Prison in Hermosillo, Sonora, on Monday, August 18. Just one day later, on August 19, the boxer’s defense filed an injunction for “deprivation of liberty.”
According to Proceso magazine, “a federal judge in the state of Sonora ordered the prison authorities not to keep boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. incommunicado, who remains in justified pre-trial detention pending the definition of his legal situation.
“Chavez Carrasco filed an injunction before the Eleventh District Judge in the state of Sonora, Ana Maria Nava Ortega, who granted him a suspension against the acts of incommunication that he claimed,” the report explains.
“Based on article 126 of the Amparo Law, THE SUSPENSION IS DECREED for the effect that the aforementioned challenged act consisting of incommunication ceases immediately,” states the summary in file 1557/2025 notified on Thursday.
Why is Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. detained in Mexico?
It should be noted that Chavez Carrasco was arrested on July 3 by members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States for being involved with organized crime.
In Mexico, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced that it has an arrest warrant against him issued since February 2023 for being linked to organized crime.
On August 18, the US government deported the boxer, who was then taken to the cells of the Policia Federal Ministerial in Hermosillo, Sonora, where he was later taken to a maximum security prison.
The initial hearing was held on the same date in the evening when the FGR charged him with organized crime for the purpose of trafficking and manufacturing weapons, in the form of someone who participates in the clandestine introduction into the national territory and manufactures weapons, ammunition, cartridges and explosives.
Prosecutors said Chavez Carrasco may have links to the Sinaloa Cartel, particularly with the leaders of the “Los Chapitos” faction, as he was mentioned in two telephone conversations by alleged drug traffickers as the person who beat members of the organization who made mistakes that could expose them.
With this protection, could Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. be free?
The boxer’s defense requested the duplication of the constitutional term to gather evidence in his favor and avoid being linked to the process.
This injunction seeks to stop the immediate effects of his imprisonment and open a legal avenue to protect him while the process against him for organized crime and trafficking in weapons, ammunition and explosives is underway. For his lawyers, the measure represents a procedural strategy that could give him room in a case of great media and judicial repercussions.
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