Former world title holders plea gets TKO

JUDGE  Rolando Quesada Vallespi has rejected a request by lawyers for former Panama world boxing champion Celestino Caballero for a direct trial.

In a decision dated May 19, First Criminal Court  Judge Vallespi Quesada denied the petition by Víctor Orobio, Caballero’s lawyer, arguing that such a request had to be filed jointly with the prosecution.

The former boxer was arrested March 10 carrying 10 kilos of cocaine in the trunk of his car.