Hey dude, I used to break into cars and do drugs in my Dickies and Cortez. Removing myself from the people I used to hang around with was step 1, step 2 was moving away from the city I grew up in and everyone knew me in. If you can't leave Vegas, that's fine but watch who you hang with. Career criminal is a choice you make until your eventually in too deep to do anything else, climbing ranks in that lifestyle is something someone does because they want to, they want to be there and climb those ranks, just like you have to want to be in that ring. Next ask yourself what you want to be? If the answer is gangster then continue to do drugs and run with druggies criminals. You want to be a boxer run with boxers. You want to get educated and make a good living and life for yourself and future wife and children, get a education, learn a trade, drive trucks, or join the military. Military may be out of the option depending on your crimes. I think it would be a good place for you though. Free place to live, free food, free healthcare, they pay you, and you learn a job skill. If you have nowhere to live the simple fact they house you is good enough, the others are just bonus. You'd also get the discipline, authority, and help it seems you need. As well as new friends that are doing something with their lives.
I hope your working on something for yourself other than boxing. The chances of boxing playing out well as a career path are very low.
I am sorry for the loss of your mother and I can understand how something like this can drive a person into severe depression, suicide, drugs, etc. I have had my own severe struggles with losing a loved one.
Good luck
