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[From the Gulfport, MIssissippi Sun-Heraldnewspaper]
Posted on Fri, Jan. 07, 2005
EX-CHAMP BUSTED
Boxer also faces drug charge after Ecstasy found in Biloxi hotel room
By ROBIN FITZGERALD THE SUN HERALD
GULFPORT - CRIME Former boxing champ faces burglary and drug charges.
- Police: Camacho stole laptop computers
- Gulfport store owners: He was a customer
The couple whose computer business allegedly was burglarized by Hector Luis "Macho" Camacho Sr. said they were disappointed when they learned the three-time world boxing champ is the suspect.
Camacho, arrested Thursday in Biloxi, was a customer of ZDI Computer Center at Old Courthouse Corner in Gulfport and had worked on boxing promotions at an adjoining business, said Solomon and Samantha Wheeler, ZDI owners.
Authorities arrested Camacho on a burglary charge and also filed a drug possession charge after Biloxi police allegedly found Ecstasy, a club drug, in his hotel room.
The Wheelers said seven laptop computers were taken in the Dec. 2 break-in along with some cash. The false ceiling in their shop at 204 Courthouse Road also was damaged.
"It was a bit of a shock but mostly disgusting," said Samantha Wheeler. "We had met him. We sold him parts. He bought a laptop from us."
Gulfport Police Chief Steve Barnes said some of the stolen property has been recovered.
Biloxi police said they found Camacho, 42, in a hotel room Thursday morning at Imperial Palace. They took him to the Gulfport Police Department for filing of the burglary charge and returned him to Biloxi, where police filed the drug charge.
Officers found 10 Ecstasy pills in the hotel room, said Biloxi Police Capt. Rick Kirk.
Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain set Comacho's bond at $75,000 for the drug charge. Justice Court Judge Melvin Ray set a $50,000 bond for the burglary charge, police said.
Comacho had not been booked at the Harrison County jail as of 8 p.m. Thursday.
Authorities listed Camacho's home address as Chateau de la Mer Resort Inn, condominiums at U.S. 90 and Cowan Road in Gulfport. Camacho has been training in South Mississippi since last year, when he won a pro boxing match at Beau Rivage casino in July.
He first achieved international acclaim as a featherweight and later as a welterweight. His son, Hector Jr., also is a professional boxer.
Samantha Wheeler, 22, said she opened her store Dec. 2 while her husband was on a service call and thought he had left the shop in disarray.
"Stuff was strewn everywhere," she said.
"Then she noticed holes in the ceiling," said Solomon Wheeler, 26. "Whoever did this had to have held himself up on the rafters to move through the building. It looks like the burglar fell right through the ceiling."
The couple said they found a key while cleaning up and police later found it fit a car parked on the lot in front of the building.
[From the Gulfport, MIssissippi Sun-Heraldnewspaper]
Posted on Fri, Jan. 07, 2005
EX-CHAMP BUSTED
Boxer also faces drug charge after Ecstasy found in Biloxi hotel room
By ROBIN FITZGERALD THE SUN HERALD
GULFPORT - CRIME Former boxing champ faces burglary and drug charges.
- Police: Camacho stole laptop computers
- Gulfport store owners: He was a customer
The couple whose computer business allegedly was burglarized by Hector Luis "Macho" Camacho Sr. said they were disappointed when they learned the three-time world boxing champ is the suspect.
Camacho, arrested Thursday in Biloxi, was a customer of ZDI Computer Center at Old Courthouse Corner in Gulfport and had worked on boxing promotions at an adjoining business, said Solomon and Samantha Wheeler, ZDI owners.
Authorities arrested Camacho on a burglary charge and also filed a drug possession charge after Biloxi police allegedly found Ecstasy, a club drug, in his hotel room.
The Wheelers said seven laptop computers were taken in the Dec. 2 break-in along with some cash. The false ceiling in their shop at 204 Courthouse Road also was damaged.
"It was a bit of a shock but mostly disgusting," said Samantha Wheeler. "We had met him. We sold him parts. He bought a laptop from us."
Gulfport Police Chief Steve Barnes said some of the stolen property has been recovered.
Biloxi police said they found Camacho, 42, in a hotel room Thursday morning at Imperial Palace. They took him to the Gulfport Police Department for filing of the burglary charge and returned him to Biloxi, where police filed the drug charge.
Officers found 10 Ecstasy pills in the hotel room, said Biloxi Police Capt. Rick Kirk.
Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain set Comacho's bond at $75,000 for the drug charge. Justice Court Judge Melvin Ray set a $50,000 bond for the burglary charge, police said.
Comacho had not been booked at the Harrison County jail as of 8 p.m. Thursday.
Authorities listed Camacho's home address as Chateau de la Mer Resort Inn, condominiums at U.S. 90 and Cowan Road in Gulfport. Camacho has been training in South Mississippi since last year, when he won a pro boxing match at Beau Rivage casino in July.
He first achieved international acclaim as a featherweight and later as a welterweight. His son, Hector Jr., also is a professional boxer.
Samantha Wheeler, 22, said she opened her store Dec. 2 while her husband was on a service call and thought he had left the shop in disarray.
"Stuff was strewn everywhere," she said.
"Then she noticed holes in the ceiling," said Solomon Wheeler, 26. "Whoever did this had to have held himself up on the rafters to move through the building. It looks like the burglar fell right through the ceiling."
The couple said they found a key while cleaning up and police later found it fit a car parked on the lot in front of the building.