From the LVRJ: It’s not clear whether champion boxer Carlos Molina, arrested in Las Vegas on a fugitive warrant earlier this week, will be released from jail before his title defense Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
Molina, 30, the International Boxing Federation junior middleweight champion, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Las Vegas police on a fugitive warrant.
The warrant, issued in 2007, was for a parole violation for failing to register as a sex offender. He was convicted in 2002 of second-degree sexual assault of a child in Outagamie County, Wisc.
During a Thursday morning hearing before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joseph Bonventure, Clark County prosecutor Bart Pace agreed to set Molina’s bail for the warrant at $10,000 after discussing the case with Wisconsin authorities.
Leon Margules, who promotes Molina, said “we made an agreement with Wisconsin” for the fighter’s release in the sex offender registration violation. “The immigration issue is a little more complicated. I’m still trying to find out exactly why Carlos is being held. I’m hopeful we can get it resolved, get him released and get him in the ring Saturday.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/weekend-title-bout-question-after-boxer-arrested-fugitive-warrant-held-immigration
Some questions:
Why was he arrested now? He has had 18 fights since 2007, when the arrest warrant was issued, including several in Las Vegas.
He lived in Chicago, about 150 miles from Appleton, WI., where the warrant is from. How come the Chicago cops didn't pick him up?
Why would the Outagamie authorities allow him out on a small bail of $10,000 if he has skipped town for the past 7 years or so?
How come the Nevada Boxing Commission didn't do a background check on this guy?
Finally, he is a convicted child sex offender. Why is he still in the U.S.?
If he is allowed out of jail and allowed to fight on Saturday, it would be a travesty of justice and one would think some people were paid off.
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