Police: Former Pro Boxer Looked to Collect On Cancelled Exhibition by Threatening Promoter

A Norwalk man who is a former professional boxer, and his brother -- a former minor-league baseball player who lives in Port Chester -- face felony charges after they tried to collect on money from a cancelled boxing exhibition in town.

Manuel Mosqueda is a former light welterweight from Norwalk, whose professional career included bouts in Las Vegas and New York. Mosqueda and his brother, Juan Mosqueda of Port Chester, went to a Greenwood Avenue home at 7 p.m. on Saturday, looking for a 41-year-old man who had booked the brothers from an ill-fated boxing exhibition.

The brothers were booked to participate in the Oct. 21 event at on Smith Street, but the victim told police the event didn't happen and said he didn't owe the Mosqueda brothers anything, according to police.

The brothers disagreed, entering the man's apartment and "threatening him with harm" if he didn't pay up, Lt. James Ladeairous said.

Police don't make determinations on civil matters, but since the brothers entered the promoter's apartment uninvited and threatened him there, they were both arrested. Juan Masqueda, 29, of Putnam Drive in Port Chester, and Manuel Mosqueda, 43, of North Taylor Street in Norwalk, were each charged with second-degree burglary, a Class E felony.

The charges -- and the question of whether the promoter indeed owed the brothers for the exhibition -- will be settled in court.

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