Former boxer Pical gets sevent-month jail term<\/p>\n
The West Jakarta District Court sentenced former world boxing
\nchampion Ellyas Pical to seven months in jail on Thursday for
\npossessing three ecstasy tablets.<\/p>\n
Pical, who was the IBF super flyweight champion between 1985
\nand 1989, was arrested in July for selling ecstasy to undercover
\ndetectives in Miles discotheque in West Jakarta where he worked
\nas a bouncer.<\/p>\n
Despite the prosecutor's demand of a one-year sentence, the
\njudge said a mitigating factor was that the former boxer once
\nbrought international prestige to the nation, Antara news service
\nreported.<\/p>\n
Pical, 48, known as \"the Exocet\" because of his powerful left
\nhook, became the country's first international boxing champion
\nwhen he took the title from South Korean Judo Chun in 1985 in
\nJakarta, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n
A month before his arrest, Pical -- who has a fifth grade
\neducation -- told The Jakarta Post he wished the government had
\nprovided him with a job once his boxing career was finished. --
\nAgencies<\/p>",
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