'Macho' Camacho arrested on burglary charge

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'Macho' Camacho arrested on burglary charge

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP)  Three-time world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho was arrested Thursday in the burglary of a Gulfport business last November.

Gulfport police chief Stephen T. Barnes said that Camacho, 42, was being held in Harrison County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. No date was set for an initial court appearance.

Barnes declined Thursday to release any details of the burglary  including what kind of business it was or what allegedly was taken.

Barnes said a warrant was issued Dec. 22 for Camacho, who has been training on the Mississippi coast. The police chief said the burglary was reported to police on Dec. 2.

Camacho (78-5-2, 38 KOs) has been training for a middleweight bout with Chris Walsh (19-7-1, 7 KOs) on Jan. 21 in Gulfport.

Camacho, who won a unanimous decision over Clint McNeil in July, is a former super-featherweight, lightweight and junior-welterweight champion. His last title fight came against then-welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya in 1997, when he lost a unanimous decision.

Camacho has had several brushes with the law involving drugs, domestic assault and driving violations. When he was 16, he served 3½ months in a New York prison for auto theft.

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