Mónica González Rivera (born September 29, 1988) is a Puerto Rican amateur

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from the city of Arroyo. She won a bronze medal as a flyweight for Puerto Rico at the

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held in

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, Canada. A member of the Puerto Rican national women's boxing team, Gonzalez had taken up boxing only a year and a half before the Toronto Pan American Games.

Arrest

On April 14, 2018,

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police announced that they had arrested González, charged with attacking and hurting two people with a baseball bat, in an event that allegedly took place on April 11.

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* 1988 births Living people People from Arroyo, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican women boxers Flyweight boxers Pan American Games bronze medalists in boxing Pan American Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico Pan American Games boxers for Puerto Rico Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games 21st-century Puerto Rican sportswomen {{PuertoRico-boxing-bio-stub