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A lad of imprisoned Mexican cause lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman connected Monday (December 1, 2025) pleaded blameworthy successful a U.S. cause trafficking case, months aft his member struck a akin deal.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez had been scheduled to look successful national tribunal successful Chicago for a presumption hearing, but alternatively entered a blameworthy plea, tribunal records showed.
Guzman Lopez is 1 of 4 sons of El Chapo - known arsenic Los Chapitos, oregon Little Chapos - who inherited their father’s faction of the Sinaloa cartel. Guzman Lopez primitively pleaded not blameworthy aft his apprehension past twelvemonth successful Texas.
Jeffrey Lichtman, Guzman Lopez’s defence lawyer, did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Guzman Lopez faced aggregate charges successful the U.S. of funneling immense quantities of fentanyl and different drugs to U.S. streets. Fentanyl overdoses person surged to go the starring origin of decease for Americans betwixt the ages of 18 and 45.
Guzman Lopez was detained successful July 2024 aft landing successful a backstage level successful the El Paso area. He was arrested on with Mexican cause kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 1 of the astir consequential traffickers successful Mexico’s history, who co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo.
Current and erstwhile U.S. officials, who sought anonymity to talk candidly astir the events, told Reuters astatine the clip that Guzman Lopez had lured Zambada to the U.S., a large coup for U.S. authorities.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, different lad of “El Chapo,” pleaded blameworthy successful July to 2 counts of cause organisation and 2 counts of information successful a continuing transgression enterprise. He faces a imaginable beingness sentence.
El Chapo was extradited to the U.S. successful 2017 and is serving a beingness condemnation successful a maximum information prison.
