The interim super flyweight champion of the World Boxing Association (WBA), the Panamanian Luis ‘el Nica’ Concepción, was sanctioned today for driving drunk and allegedly fleeing a police checkpoint, informed the director of Traffic Operations, Commissioner Javier Fanuco.
Fanuco said on the morning newscast Telemetro Reporta that Concepción was detained during the early hours of Monday in Las Garzas de Pacora, about 25 kilometers east of Panama City, for evading a police checkpoint, which sparked a manhunt.
The commissioner explained that the boxer came out positive in the breathalyzer test with a score of 51 for intoxication, eleven more than the limit, for which both his car and his driver’s license were withheld, as indicated by traffic regulations.
The boxer told La Estrella de Panamá that he was released around 01:00 local time (06:00 GMT) today, denied having fled and complained that he is not a criminal so that they have handcuffed and gunned him to transfer him to the police station. of Pacora.
Now the athlete will have to pay the respective fines and submit to the traffic regulations. EFE
Concepción, interim super flyweight champion, is sanctioned for drunk driving
