Ike Ibeabuchi Found! Held by Arizona to 2019.
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Former heavyweight contender Ike Ibeabuchi is still alive. One of his nephews, Jo Uzo, Ike’s brother’s son, contacted this reporter over Memorial Day Weekend 2018 via Facebook Messenger asking if his cousin Ike was still alive. This reporter did a series of interviews with Ibeabuchi in Spring 2016 after he was released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Ibeabuchi completed a 16 year sentence in Nevada in 2015, which was overturned twice by the Nevada State Supreme Court. Ibeabuchi was unable to get the overturned conviction officially recognized, and was also suing to regain purse money held in
trust by a Nigerian Power of Attorney selected by his late mother to oversee Ike’s financial assets.
Ibeabuchi was rearrested in 2016 in Gilbert, Arizona, for violating the terms of a previous conviction unrelated to the second conviction he was released from.
It appears Ibeabuchi was unaware of any requirements regarding the first conviction at the time he was released from immigration holding in 2016. According to Arizona, ICE has a detainer on Ibeabuchi issued on February 16, 2018, which may relate to his United States citizenship application status after Ike was issued a green card in 2016. Nigeria would not issue Ibeabuchi travel papers in 2015, and Ibeabuchi wound up in immigration limbo.
Ibeabuchi was found officially admitted to the Arizona State penal system on February 16, 2018, and found guilty of disorderly conduct on March 23, 2018, considered a major violation in Arizona, but it is unknown whether this is related to his violating the terms of his first conviction. His new Arizona release date is
September 25, 2019, and his supervision will end March 5, 2020. Ikemefula Ibeabichi, 47 years old on February 2, 2020, remains on lifetime probation in Arizona.
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