The son of infamous Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” intends to plead responsible to drug trafficking prices within the U.S., in line with court docket paperwork filed Tuesday.
Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez, alongside together with his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the cartel often known as the “Chapitos,” or little Chapos, that exported fentanyl to america.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez’s father is Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the previous chief of the Sinaloa cartel who smuggled mountains of cocaine and different medication into america over 25 years.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez was arrested in Mexico in 2023 and extradited to america. He was charged in federal court docket in Chicago with cash laundering, drug and firearm offenses.
He beforehand pleaded not responsible, however on-line court docket data point out he’s scheduled to seem in court docket on July 9 to vary his plea as a part of a take care of prosecutors. Courtroom paperwork filed Tuesday point out he intends to plead responsible after phrase of a doable deal was disclosed throughout an October listening to.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez can be the primary of the brothers to enter a plea deal.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez can be in U.S. custody. He and one other longtime Sinaloa chief, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, had been arrested in July in Texas after they landed within the U.S. on a non-public airplane.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez has pleaded not responsible to prices together with cash laundering, drug dealing and conspiracy to distribute medication. Zambada additionally pleaded not responsible.
The boys’s dramatic seize prompted a surge in violence in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the Sinaloa cartel clashed.
Federal prosecutors and Ovidio Guzman Lopez’s legal professional, listed in on-line court docket data as Jeffrey Lichtman, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
