New York | New York justice has abandoned drug trafficking on Tuesday against Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, after having reached an agreement to plead guilty and avoid a trial, according to legal documents.
Ovidio Guzman, one of the four sons of “Chapo”, known as “Chapitos”, who led a faction of the Sinaloa cartel, signed a written document on June 30 indicating that he “wishes to plead guilty”.
Consequently, the prosecutors of the Tribunal of the South district of Manhattan abandoned on Tuesday the charges held against him, in particular for conspiracy within the framework of a criminal business, drug trafficking and money laundering, and referred the case to the Chicago court.
According to documents from the Chicago court, which educates the case, an hearing is scheduled for July 9 to formalize its guilt advocacy before judge Sharon Johnson Coleman.
The judge will then pronounce the sentence on a date that remains to be determined.
Ovidio Guzman was extradited to the United States in September 2023.
The American authorities accuse Ovidio and his brothers of being the leaders of Los Chapitos, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel, appointed by the administration of Donald Trump as a global “terrorist” organization.
Washington accuses the fentanyl traffic Sinaloa cartel to the United States, where this synthetic drug causes tens of thousands of overdose deaths.
Patriarch Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was sentenced to life prison in the United States in 2019.
