Ovidio Guzmán López, one of the four sons of the infamous Mexican criminal lord known as El Chapo, is scheduled to plead guilty this summer to spread federal drug charges, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
If the plea goes as planned in Chicago on July 9th, Guzman Lopez will become the first of El Chapo's son, co-known as Los Chapitos, and will admit his guilt in U.S. federal court.
Guzman Lopez's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, said his client had not yet reached a final plea deal with the government, but he hoped it would be implemented in the coming months.
Guzman Lopez is best known for in October 2019 for causing a bloody battle between the Sinaloa drug cartel and Mexican gunmen in October 2019.
At an exhibition of Brute's attacks, cartel operatives humiliated Mexican officials by forcing the government to release Guzman Lopez shortly after he was captured.
He was arrested again in Mexico in January 2023 and handed over to the US in September to face drug charges in federal court in Chicago. He was named on a vast indictment along with his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez. his two half-brothers, Ivan Archiver Guzman Salazar and Jess Alfredo Guzman Salazar; and Ismael Zambada Garcia, his father's former business partner.
In a story that appears to have been torn from the Narco thriller, Joaquin Guzman Lopez accused Zambada Garcia of Culiacan last summer, and flew him into custody of a federal agency in the United States.
Joaquín Guzmán López is in negotiations with federal authorities in Chicago to reach his own plea agreement.
His real name, Joaquin Guzman Loera, was convicted in a landmark Brooklyn trial in 2019, and was sentenced to prison prison where investigators from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Bureau and the Department of Homeland Security were sentenced to prison for his son to be noted, and after inheriting the broken portion of his father's empire.
The lawsuit against Chicago's Guzman Lopez attracted the work of investigators in the city, Washington and San Diego, and incorporated a vast amount of evidence from witnesses working together. We've taken a great look at drug sales and violent crimes dating back to 2008.
The Chicago charges accused Ovidio Guzman Lopez of acting as a cartel's “logistics coordinator,” helping to oversee the US the large shipping of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana. The indictment also said he helped him transfer drug revenue from American consumers to Mexico and do laundry.
