BILOXI, Miss. - One-time boxing champion Hector Luis "Macho" Camacho Sr. has been re-sentenced to time served for a break-in at a Gulfport computer shop.
Harrison County Circuit Judge Steve Simpson on Monday also placed Camacho on a year of house arrest and three years' probation.
Simpson gave Camacho credit for about five months spent behind bars while waiting on resolution of charges, including a pending drug-possession case.
The judge also set trial for Nov. 5 on the drug charge, filed by Biloxi police. Officers who arrested him on the burglary charge from December 2004 allegedly found 10 Ecstasy pills in a casino hotel room he was visiting. Camacho claims the pills weren't his.
The 45-year-old Camacho remained in custody Tuesday at the Harrison County jail. His attorney, David Morrison, said he wasn't sure if Camacho would post $75,000 bail on the drug charge or wait for resolution in court.
Camacho pleaded guilty to the burglary in May, saying he "just tripped out" on tequila the night he crawled across the ceiling of shared office space to retrieve his laptop from ZDI Computer Center. Camacho offered to pay for the damage, and later did. The company filed charges after Camacho refused to pay $500,000 to avoid publicity, according to testimony.
Camacho was accused of stealing seven laptops and about $5,600, but has "generously compensated" the business, according to Assistant District Attorney Kirk Clark.
The re-sentencing was necessary because the judge had agreed for Camacho to serve a year of house arrest in Puerto Rico and later learned Puerto Rico doesn't handle such arrangements.
Simpson imposed the maximum penalty of seven years but suspended prison time. A violation of probation could put him behind bars to serve the entire sentence, the judge said.
Camacho won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s. His last title bout came against then-welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya in 1997, a loss by unanimous decision. In July 2004, Camacho dominated Clint McNeil in a 10-round bout at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi.
