NEW YORK: A son of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has agreed to plead responsible to drug trafficking in the US as a part of a plea deal, court docket paperwork present.
Ovidio Guzman is accused of conspiring to ship cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the US, through a faction of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel based by his father.
Federal court docket paperwork dated Jun 30 and signed by Ovidio Guzman, alias “Raton” (Mouse), say he needs to plead responsible to settle the case and to waive trial in Illinois, the place he’s being held.
Based on paperwork from the Chicago court docket listening to his case, a plea listening to is scheduled for Jul 9 earlier than Decide Sharon Johnson Coleman. After that listening to, the choose will sentence him at a date but to be decided.
US authorities accuse Ovidio and his three brothers of main Los Chapitos, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel designated by the Trump administration as a world “terrorist” organisation.
The US accuses the 4 of trafficking fentanyl into the US, the place the opioid epidemic is linked to tens of 1000’s of deaths.
Ovidio Guzman was extradited to the US in 2023 to face narcotics costs, becoming a member of his father, one of many world’s most notorious drug traffickers, who’s serving a life sentence in a US jail.
The Sinaloa cartel is certainly one of six Mexican drug trafficking teams designated as terrorist organisations by US President Donald Trump.
One other son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, was arrested after arriving in the US final July in a non-public aircraft with cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who claimed he had been kidnapped.
The arrests sparked cartel infighting that has left greater than 1,200 folks useless and 1,400 lacking in Sinaloa state, situated in northwestern Mexico.
On Monday, the our bodies of 20 folks, a number of of them decapitated, have been discovered on a freeway bridge in part of Mexico the place factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are combating, authorities stated.
