Just one year after completing an 11-year prison sentence, former WBA Welterweight Champion James Page is in trouble with the law once again as he has been accused of robbing eight banks, according to Ryan Maquinana of BoxingScene.com.
Page was arrested on Monday, according to Maquinana, and he is suspected of robbing eight banks over the past three months in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The 42-year-old Page was booked on one count of robbery and is being held on $395,000 bail. This isn't Page's first issue with bank robberies, as he was found guilty of robbing a Bank of America in Atlanta back in 2001 and proceeded to spend the next 11 years in prison.
Page won the WBA Welterweight Championship vacated by Ike Quartey at 147 pounds in 1998 when he knocked out Andrey Pestryaev. Page, who went by the nickname "Mighty Quinn," successfully defended the belt three times before being stripped and ultimately losing to Andrew Lewis in his bid to regain the title.
Page's first arrest and subsequent prison term for robbery came not long after his loss to Lewis. Page attempted to make a boxing comeback in late 2012, but he lost to Rahman Yusubov and has allegedly turned back to a life of crime.
It remains to be seen how things will play out for Page moving forward, but his past criminal record certainly won't do him any favors.
Stories of successful boxers squandering their careers are nothing new, but Page sadly appears to have taken things to a new level.
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