Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, said Tuesday that Gilroy boxer Robert Guerrero traveled with a gun last week because the interim WBC welterweight champion meant to use it at a Las Vegas shooting range as a hobby.
“Robert’s hobby is to shoot guns at the shooting range,” Schaefer told the Dispatch in a phone interview. “He was planning to take the gun with him to Las Vegas and do that at one of the shooting ranges there. There were no bad intentions. Those who know Robert know the kind of values and what he stands for.
“The fact that he had disclosed the guns, (had) no ammunition, all of those aspects clearly show that this was an innocent incident.”
Guerrero, a born-and-raised Gilroy native who still lives in his hometown, was arrested the morning of March 28 on gun charges at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Guerrero was arraigned later March 28 on a four-count criminal complaint charging him with one count of criminal possession of a firearm and three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to the Queens County District Attorney’s office. Guerrero’s next court date is May 14.
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