By Edward Chaykovsky

According to multiple reports in Arizona, 43-year-old former heavyweight fighter Ikemefula "Ike" Ibeabuchi is once again in trouble with the law.

Ibeabuchi was arrested last Thursday in Gilbert (located in Phoenix) for allegedly violating conditions of his Arizona lifetime probation for a 1998 conviction in a sexual assault case. The Maricopa County Adult Probation Department says Ibeabuchi failed to begin a treatment program.

The boxer was convicted in 2001 inLas Vegas of attempted sexual assault and battery.

Ibeabuchi completed his sentence in the Nevada Department of Corrections. However, Ibeabuchi was moved in Nevada to first to the Washoe County Jail on February 28, 2014, and then transferred by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Eloy Detention Center in Eloy, Arizona.

In November 2015, Ibeabuchi was finally released. Upon his release, Ibeabuchi signed an agreement with Michael Koncz, the longtime adviser of eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao. He was initially going to make his ring return on last Saturday's Pacquiao-Bradley undercard at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, but those plans never came together.

Ibeabuchi (20-0, 15KOs) has not stepped in the ring since March of 1999, when he knocked out an undefeated Chris Byrd in five rounds. Byrd would not suffer another stoppage loss until his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko in 2006.