Ovidio Guzman was extradited from Mexico on Friday and faces a number of prices over the alleged trafficking of medicine, together with fentanyl.
Ovidio Guzman, one of many sons of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, higher often called El Chapo, has pleaded not responsible in a court docket in the USA to a number of prices, together with drug trafficking and cash laundering.
Guzman, one in all El Chapo’s 4 sons, appeared in court docket in Chicago on Monday, a couple of days after his extradition from Mexico.
Throughout a quick listening to below tight safety, Guzman, sporting an orange jumpsuit along with his ankles shackled, listened to the proceedings by a Spanish interpreter, in accordance with the Chicago Tribune.
He entered a not-guilty plea to a number of drug trafficking, cash laundering and firearms prices, the Division of Justice mentioned in an announcement.
Identified by the alias El Raton or The Mouse, he’s accused of conspiring to ship cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the US.
His father, El Chapo, was extradited from Mexico to the US in 2017 and convicted two years later. He’s now serving a life sentence for drug trafficking and homicide in a maximum-security jail.
The US has mentioned El Chapo’s 4 sons, collectively often called The Chapitos or The Little Chapos, inherited management of his Sinaloa Cartel after his conviction.
Three of the 66-year-old’s different sons have additionally been indicted within the US.
Ovidio Guzman was captured within the metropolis of Culiacan in northern Sinaloa on January 5.
Following his arrest, cartel members set autos on hearth and created mayhem, an echo of the large shootouts in 2019 when the youthful Guzman was arrested however shortly freed to keep away from bloodshed.
Two of the six counts Guzman faces within the US carry a compulsory life sentence, prosecutors mentioned, in accordance with the Chicago Tribune. The US agreed to not pursue the dying penalty as a part of its extradition negotiation with Mexico, the every day mentioned.
Guzman will likely be held in custody till his trial and is subsequent due in court docket in November.
