MEXICO CITY — Boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was released Sunday from a prison in northern Mexico where he was sent in August after being deported from the United States.

The boxer, son of Mexican boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez, is awaiting trial on accusations of involvement with cartels and illegally trafficking arms into Mexico.

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Chavez was released after a judge in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo said he wouldn’t have to remain jailed in the lead-up to the trial, but that he was prohibited from leaving Mexico, a federal agent told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The judge also set a three-month period for further investigation into the case.

Chavez’s lawyer, Ruben Fernando Benitez Alvarez descr

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