PHOENIX, May 26: Hall of Fame boxer Michael Carbajal was arrested on Thursday for allegedly threatening a police officer, authorities said. The 39-year-old Carbajal was booked into jail on suspicion of threatening and intimidating a police officer and a liquor violation, police said. He was later released on bond.

Joel Tranter, a Phoenix police spokesman, said Carbajal was ‘agitated, argumentative and belligerent’ with officers who found him walking in a vacant lot with an open bottle of rum early Thursday. Carbajal threatened to kill one of the officers and was taken into custody, Tranter said.

Carbajal, a US Olympian who won a silver medal in 1988, is a former IBF and WBO junior flyweight champion. He retired in 1999 with a record of 49-4 .—AP