Ovidio Guzmán López and his brother Joaquín, of the same surnames, both sons of the Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo” Guzmán, are accused in a Court of the capital of the United States of conspiracy to import and distribute in that country 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana.
According to the US court file, a copy of which is owned by HIGH LEVEL, The charges against Ovidio Guzmán began in 2018, in a case that is in charge of the prosecutor Anthony Thomas Aminoff, official attached to the section of narcotics and dangerous drugs of the United States Department of Justice.
Ovidio Guzmán, relearned this Thursday morning in Sinaloa, has an arrest warrant against him, for which, if his arrest in Mexico is confirmed early this Thursday, his extradition would be requested to be tried in a federal Court of the District of Columbia, by judge Rudolph Contreras, the same togado that led the process against Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
In the case of Ovidio Guzmán, indicated in the US indictment with the nicknames “El Ratón” and “Ratón Nuevo”, the details of the arrest warrant against him were reserved, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, by Deborah A Robinson, magistrate of the same Washington, DC Court, who on April 2, 2018 also granted that part of the file against the scion of “El Chapo” Guzmán not be made known to the public.
In its history is the “culiacanazo”
As will be recalled, Ovidio Guzmán, now 32 years old, was detained by the military in October 2019, and released immediately thereafter on the orders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after his apprehension led to various violent acts in Culiacán, Sinaloa, in a tragic episode known as the “culiacanazo”.
The Mexican president then justified himself by saying that “fire cannot be put out with fire, that is the difference of this strategy in relation to what previous governments have done, we do not want deaths, we do not want war, this costs them I work to understand many of them”.
Actually, the release of Guzmán López a little over three years ago, and the recognition of the president, It meant that the Mexican State gave in to the threats of the Sinaloa cartel, led by the sons of Guzmán Loera since he was extradited -in 2017- to the United States, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment, plus 30 years, for drug trafficking.
A similar sentence could be applied to Ovidio Guzmán if he does not admit his responsibility for the drug trafficking crimes against him, although – like Emma Coronel – it is also possible that he will reach a negotiation with the United States prosecutors, with the in order to obtain a reduced prison sentence.
One of the most wanted
Ovidio Guzmán López, who is one of the most wanted criminals by the US State Department, was born in March 1990 in Badiraguato, Sinaloa.
He is the son of Joaquín Guzmán Loera and his second wife, Guadalupe López Pérez, with whom he procreated, in addition to Ovidio, Joaquín, Edgar and Griselda Guadalupe, all with the surname Guzmán López. The murder of one of these, Edgar Guzmán, was reported in 2008, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, at the hands of hitmen from the Beltrán Leyva brothers’ cartel.
The charges against Ovidio Guzmán in the United States, although they were filed by the Department of Justice of that country in 2018, include an accusation for drug trafficking that dates back to 2008, that is, the Prosecutor’s Office considers that, during those 10 years, the son of “El Chapo” Guzmán conspired to import drugs into that nation.
Currently, Ovidio’s father, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, is imprisoned in the maximum security ADX Florence Penitentiary Center, located in the state of Colorado.
In September 2022, “Chapo” Guzmán He requested the annulment of his trial with which he was convicted. In a 13-page document that was released a month later, signed in his own handwriting, the Mexican drug trafficker pleaded not guilty in his petition, in which he stated that “he was denied the right to effective assistance from a lawyer ”.
For her part, in November 2021, after pleading guilty and negotiating with the Prosecutor’s Office, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of “El Chapo”, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for being responsible for conspiring to distribute and import heroin into the United States. , cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines, in addition to money laundering, and the creation of shell companies to hide the wealth of his spouse. Thanks to her admission of guilt, Colonel will get his freedom next September 13, 2023.
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