Joaquin’s son El Chapo Guzmán, Ovidio Guzmán López, canceled his hearing, which was scheduled for May 12, because he will declare himself guilty of various drug trafficking positions on July 9 in Chicago, reported the editor in Chief of Criminal Affairs of the newspaper of the newspaper Los Angeles Times. Initially the defendant declared himself not guilty to the Chicago authorities.
Journalist Keegan Hamilton added to his account of X that the court requested a copy of the “guilt agreement, indicating that an agreement has been reached in the case.”
Last year it was reported that Ovidio Guzmán López, aka The mousehe was negotiating with the Prosecutor’s Office an agreement to declare himself guilty and avoid a trial, as close to the case.
Extradified in September 2023 to the United States, the defendant appeared before Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman in the Northern District Court of Illinois. At that time, defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman acknowledged that there was such dialogue with prosecutors, but there is no firm decision.
Justice accuses The Chapitos to be commanded by the Sinaloa Cartel, along with Zambada García and Dámaso López Núñez, aka The graduateafter the arrest of El Chapo Guzmán, sentenced in 2019 to life imprisonment in that country.
