Alvarado Officially Charged With Having Weapon Illegally

by David P. Greisman

Mike Alvarado’s arrest on Jan. 3 on an open warrant has also led to an additional case accusing him of being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, according to The Denver Post and online court records, which indicate that Alvarado was officially charged on Jan. 12.

The arrest came during a traffic stop caused by Alvarado’s vehicle registration being expired, and officers believed they saw Alvarado, who was in the passenger seat, putting something into his glove compartment. They soon discovered the open warrant for Alvarado’s arrest, plus a handgun in the glove compartment, the report said.

Regarding the warrant, Alvarado had been taken into police custody in Nevada in late September after a disturbance call led police to discover open warrants for him in Colorado.

Alvarado, 34, had a traffic warrant issued on May 27 by the Northglenn Police Department for failure to appear in court for a charge of “driving under restraint,” according to online records. He then had a felony warrant issued on June 3 by the Thornton Police Department for a past charge of “possession of weapons by previous offenders.”

He was supposed to have a court date on Dec. 22 in Adams County District Court for an arraignment in a the latter case of being a felon in possession of a weapon. Apparently he allegedly didn’t show, as the Adams County Sheriff’s Office website shows an open warrant issued Dec. 22 for “failure to appear.”

He also had a warrant issued Dec. 16 for failure to appear in a traffic case out of Northglenn for the aforementioned charge of driving under restraint.

Though the arrest came just three weeks before Alvarado’s Jan. 24 trilogy rubber match and continues with less than two weeks to go, the fight is still on. Alvarado remains free on bail.

Alvarado has a lengthy criminal record and spent some time behind bars a handful of years ago for violating probation “involving traffic- and driving-oriented offenses and an earlier domestic violence charge,” The Denver Post wrote in 2010 as the boxer was preparing to come back to the ring.

He is coming off a pair of losses — one to Ruslan Provodnikov via stoppage in October 2013, another via decision against Juan Manuel Marquez in May. That brought his record to 34-3 with 23 KOs.

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