Son of El Chapo pleads guilty in US drug trafficking case
by Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6YKCN)
Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel
A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo" pleaded guilty on Friday to US drug-trafficking charges, becoming the first of the drug lord's sons to enter a plea deal.
Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel. They became known locally as the Chapitos", or little Chapos", and federal authorities in 2023 described the operation as a major effort to send staggering" quantities of fentanyl into the US.
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