This January 9, the intermediate hearing of Ovidio Guzmanthe day on which he would know the date on which the sentence would be handed down, however, the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán You will have to wait a few more months.
And Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, of the Northern District of Illinois and in charge of the case, rescheduled the hearing for July 10, without offering an explanation for that change.
Coleman will dictate his verdict based on the cooperation that Ovidio Guzmán has offered to the United States justice system in accordance with the agreement reached. The accused seeks to avoid life imprisonmentjust as it was imposed on his father.
As part of the agreement with the prosecution, the member of Los Chapitos accepted that he contributed to the production and trafficking of quantities of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, marijuana and fentanyl.
Prosecutors maintained that Ovidio Guzmán and his brothers, Ivan Archivaldo, Joaquin and Jesus Alfredo They took charge of the activities of the Sinaloa cartel when “El Chapo” was imprisoned in the United States and they were in charge of reorganizing the cartel through the sale of fentanyl.
The criminal, also known as “El Ratón”, became the first son of Chapo to plead guilty in that country. He promised to provide substantial information about his organization and factionsin addition to agreeing to pay the government nearly $80 million in property and other assets as part of the plea agreement.
Ovidio was arrested in January 2023, in a second attempt by the Mexican government to capture him. In September of that year, he was extradited to the United States.
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