Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son Ovidio Guzman, who was arrested in Mexico’s Sinaloa state in January, has been extradited to the US on fentanyl trafficking expenses, in response to US authorities.
Nicknamed “El Raton” aka “The Mouse”, Ovidio can also be accused of getting ordered the homicide of a singer who had refused to carry out at his marriage ceremony.
“This motion is the newest step within the Justice Division’s effort to assault each side of the cartel’s operations. The battle towards the cartels has concerned unbelievable braveness by United States regulation enforcement and Mexican regulation enforcement and navy servicemembers, lots of whom have given their lives within the pursuit of justice,” stated US Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland in a press release launched by the nation’s Division of Justice.
“I’m grateful to them and to the Division’s prosecutors for his or her work and their sacrifice. I’m additionally grateful to our Mexican authorities counterparts for this extradition. The Justice Division will proceed to carry accountable these answerable for fueling the opioid epidemic that has devastated too many communities throughout the nation,” he added.
The transfer comes days after El Chapo’s spouse Emma Coronel Aispuro was launched from US federal custody following the completion of a three-year sentence for serving to the drug lord run his cartel. Aispuro, who pleaded responsible in 2021 to 3 federal offenses, will now serve 4 years of supervised launch.
The lady had helped the drug lord escape by way of a tunnel beneath a Mexican jail in 2015 by supplying him a GPS watch disguised as a meals merchandise, serving to these digging the tunnel find him.
El Chapo, who was later arrested once more in 2016, is at the moment serving life behind bars in a Colorado supermax jail for main the cartel. He insisted his trial in New York wasn’t truthful and instructed the decide his case was stained.
Who’s Ovidio Guzman?
Ovidio is among the 4 kids of El Chapo from his relationship with Griselda Lopez. The eldest of the 4, Edgar, died in a shootout in 2008. Ovidio who was briefly detained in Mexico’s Culiacan in 2019 was launched as per President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s orders to keep away from bloodshed when his cartel unleashed violence and focused the police and troopers.
