Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of El Chapo, brought to US to face drug trafficking charges: Sources

Ovidio Guzman Lopez was captured in Mexico earlier this year.

ByAaron Katersky
September 15, 2023, 6:30 PM


A son of the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo arrived in the United States on Friday following his extradition from Mexico to face drug trafficking charges, according to sources.

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, was charged in April with two dozen others as part of a crackdown targeting a global drug trafficking network run through Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. According to the charges, the cartel used precursor chemicals shipped from China to fuel the fentanyl crisis plaguing the U.S.

He was flown to Chicago but is also charged in New York and Washington, D.C.



This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez is detained in Culiacan, Mexico, on Oct. 17, 2019.
CEPROPIE via AP, FILE

Guzman Lopez had been wanted by U.S. authorities since 2019 and captured by Mexican armed forces in January in a small town just outside the city of Culiacán, the capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

More:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ovidio-guzman-lopez-son-el-chapo-brought-us/story?id=103234606

(The kid's very young stepmother was just released from a US facility a couple of days ago!)