(New York) New York justice abandoned drug trafficking on Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Tuesday, after having succeeded in advocating and avoiding a trial, according to court 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, prosecutors of the Tribunal of the South district of Manhattan abandoned on Tuesday the charges held against him, in particular for conspiracy as part 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 Sinaloa Traffic Cartel of Fentanyl 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.
