Julio César Chávez Jr. will face trial on parole after being charged with organized crime

This Saturday, August 23, federal judge Enrique Miranda ordered the prosecution of Julio César Chávez Jr. for organized crime during a hearing held at the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Hermosillo. Following this ruling, the judicial authority must decide in the coming days whether the son of the former world boxing champion will remain incarcerated at the CEFERESO 11 prison in Sonora or will be transferred to a higher-security prison.

All of this followed his deportation from the United States and handed over to Mexican authorities. At the time, he was held in pretrial detention after being accused of having ties to the Sinaloa Cartel. He was held at the Federal Social Readaptation Center (CEFERESO) 11 in Sonora.

It should be noted that despite being charged for his alleged ties to organized crime and arms trafficking, he will continue his legal process on parole and have a three-month period for the complementary investigation, which will expire on November 24, 2025, when the case is resolved.

Among the evidence presented were wiretaps in which unidentified individuals link him to Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas “El Nini,” head of security for the Sinaloa Cartel, in addition to a DEA report naming him as a subject of investigation, complaints collected in Mexico and the United States since 2019. In one of the wiretaps, a man identified as “Marx” described how Julio César Chávez Jr. allegedly participated in violent acts at the direction of “El Nini.”