Ovidio Guzmán, one of the “chapitos”, one of the sons of the famous Joaquín ‘el Chapo’ Guzman, arrived this Friday in Chicago, extradited from a prison in Mexico. The United States government charges him with various crimes for drug trafficking and he is considered one of the main people responsible for the fentanyl plague registered in this country and which causes so many deaths.
The 33-year-old son of the famous head of the Sinaloa cartel, who is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado for his penchant for escapism, was indicted in April on a dozen charges as part of the effort to fight the tentacles. overall of that poster. According to the indictment, they use chemicals brought from China to manufacture fentanyl, which is then distributed in the United States.
Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States (equivalent to the Minister of Justice), described this extradition as the most recent step in the strategy to attack each and every aspect of the fight against drug trafficking associated with Sinaloa and the Guzmán family.
“I am grateful to Mexico for its response and the support of its security forces. “The Department of Justice will continue to work to hold accountable those responsible for fueling the opioid epidemic that is destroying so many communities across the country,” Garland said in a statement.
Although Ovidio Guzmán, one of the heirs of the Chapo empire, was sent to Chicago, he also has pending accounts in New York and Washington. The American justice system put the “wanted” sign on him in 2019, once his father had apparently been deactivated. He was captured last January after an armed struggle in a small city near Culiacán, capital of the state of Sinaloa.
The arrest occurred in an operation that took more than six months to prepare. They were chastened. His arrest took place after a massive confrontation between members of the cartel and security forces occurred in 2019, a circumstance that led President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to order the release of the drug trafficker.
Family things. Emma Coronel Aispuru, Chapo's last known wife, was released this week from a California prison after serving just under two years in prison (the November 2021 sentence was 36 months) for collaborating with the cartel of which her husband He was the boss. There is a suspicion that she collaborated with the US government.
