Ovidio Guzmán López, one of the four sons of the infamous Mexican crime Lord, known as El Chapo, plans to argue this summer for the vast federal drugs, according to judicial papers who were submitted on Tuesday.
If the plea continues as planned on July 9 in Chicago, Mr Guzmán López would become the first of the sons of El Chapo, who are jointly known as Los Chapitos, to recognize guilt in an American federal court building.
Jeffrey Lichtman, Mr Guzmán López’s lawyer, said that his client had not yet reached a last plea with the government, but hoped to have one in the coming months.
Mr Guzmán López is perhaps best known for causing a bloody battle between shooters for the Sinaloa drug cartel and the Mexican army in October 2019 in City of Culiacán, which has long served as the urban stronghold of the cartel.
In a representation of brutal aggression humiliated cartel agents Mexican officials Forcing the government to release Mr. Guzmán López shortly after he was captured.
He was Again arrested in Mexico in January 2023 And extradited to the United States in September to make drug attacks in the federal court in Chicago. He was mentioned in a vast indictment together with his full brother, Joaquín Guzmán López; His two half -brothers, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar; And the former business partner of his father, Ismael Zambada García.
In a story that seemed to have been torn from a narco thriller, Joaquín Guzmán López kidnapped Mr. Zambada García in Culiacán last summer and flew over the border of American federal agents.
Joaquín Guzmán López has also been in negotiations with federal authorities in Chicago to reach his own plea.
After El Chapo, whose real name Joaquín Guzmán Loera is, was condemned In a milestone test in Brooklyn in 2019 and convicted of life in prisonFBI, researchers from Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security Department focused their attention on his sons that inherited parts of their father’s broken empire.
The case against Mr Guzmán López in Chicago pulled the work of researchers from that city, Washington and San Diego, with a huge series of evidence of cooperating witnesses. It has done a big look at the sale of drugs and violent crimes that returned to 2008.
The indictment in Chicago accused Ovidio Guzmán López of actions as a “logistical coordinator” for the cartel, which allocated large shipments cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana in the United States. The indictment also said that he helped drug yields from American consumers to be transferred to – and white in Mexico.
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