Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Was Held In Psych Ward After Allegedly Downing Pills

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., former boxing champ and son of one among Mexico’s greatest-ever athletes, was just lately handled at a psych hospital after his spouse instructed police he consumed dozens of drugs, and he or she was scared for his security.

Sources inform TMZ Sports activities 37-year-old Chavez Jr.’s spouse, Frida Chavez, contacted police within the Hollywood space on October 24 … after she turned apprehensive about her hubby’s well being.

Frida — who was beforehand married to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman‘s late son, Edgar Guzman Lopez — instructed cops she believed Julio ingested a considerable amount of potent and doubtlessly harmful remedy … and needed medics to examine him out.

Rescuers had been dispatched and had been in a position to contact Chavez Jr.

It is unclear precisely what occurred, however Julio wasn’t permitted to depart after officers decided Chavez Jr. wanted to go to a psychiatric facility for therapy, generally known as a 5150 in California.

The legislation permits sure officers (cops, medical doctors, and so forth.), ought to they consider somebody to be “a danger to others, or to themselves, or gravely disabled” to be held for as much as 72 hours “for assessment, evaluation, and crisis intervention.”

Chavez Jr.’s household is clearly involved for his well being. In truth, his dad, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., just lately expressed concern for his son’s well-being throughout a podcast look.

“I feel sorry for him, because his children are little and he’s not enjoying them. It hurts me that he’s going to go crazy, that he’s going to have an accident driving at 12-1 in the morning at full speed, that he’s going to have a heart attack from all the pills he takes,” Chavez Sr. stated on the Bromeando con los Rivera show.

Talking of Sr., whereas Chavez Jr. by no means reached the athletic heights of his legendary father, he was nonetheless an completed boxer, holding the WBC middleweight title in 2011 and 2012.