The destiny of Ovidio Guzmán, one of many sons of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, stays a thriller. The son of the Mexican drug lord had been within the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Chicago since final yr, nevertheless, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) data present that the drug lord left america penitentiary services on July 23. El Ratón, as he’s recognized within the drug trafficking world, is without doubt one of the 4 leaders of Los Chapitos, inheritor to his father’s legal empire within the Sinaloa Cartel and is the top of the group’s most essential operations, fentanyl trafficking. Guzmán López and his three brothers: Iván Archivaldo, Joaquín and Jesús Alfredo have open information within the Northern District Courtroom of Illinois. They’re accused of at the very least 5 expenses associated to drug trafficking, organized crime and unlawful possession of firearms.
Following the shock arrests of Ismael El Mayo Zambada, the 76-year-old drug trafficker, and Joaquín Guzmán López, one among El Chapo’s sons, alarm bells have been ringing in regards to the state of affairs of the youngest of the Mexican drug lord’s offspring. This Friday, america ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, confirmed that Ovidio Guzmán stays within the custody of the US authorities, though his precautionary measures have been modified. He didn’t specify the main points of his authorized state of affairs.
The Secretary of Citizen Safety, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, clarified, with out giving many particulars, that the younger man thought-about to be the mastermind behind the fentanyl trafficking empire continues to be underneath the safety of the Administration of President Joe Biden, nevertheless, his standing has modified, which remains to be unsure for the Authorities of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “The USA embassy knowledgeable us that he has undoubtedly not been launched. [Ovidio Guzmán]there’s a change within the precautionary measure. We’re additionally ready for official data on this arrest provided that the Authorities of Mexico collaborated on this extradition and within the seize,” he stated on the morning convention this Friday from the Nationwide Palace. Later the American diplomat printed on the social community X. “I can even affirm that Ovidio Guzmán López stays detained in america,” with out giving additional particulars about his whereabouts.
Though it has been clarified that he stays underneath safety, neither the US nor the Mexican authorities have given particulars of the brand new precautionary measures that will likely be utilized to the drug trafficker arrested in January 2023 in Culiacán, Sinaloa. 4 years earlier, in October 2019, he had been launched after a failed operation that was known as the “Culiacanazo,” when López Obrador ordered his launch to “keep away from a bloodbath,” the Mexican president has acknowledged. Months after his second arrest was made final yr, on September 15, 2023, he was extradited to america.
Guzmán López is scheduled to seem earlier than the Northern District Courtroom of Illinois in two months. In September 2023, Ovidio Guzmán pleaded not responsible to the 5 expenses introduced in opposition to him by the U.S. authorities: possession of a managed substance with intent to distribute, conspiracy to import, manufacture and distribute a managed substance, conspiracy to launder cash, carrying weapons and taking part in a legal enterprise.
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