U.S. prosecutors have filed a five-count indictment towards Joaquín Guzmán López following an arrest operation in Texas final week.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has pleaded not responsible to drug trafficking and different costs in a U.S. court docket.
Guzman Lopez, wearing an orange jumpsuit, stood in a Chicago courtroom Tuesday together with his toes shackled as federal prosecutors detailed a five-count indictment that additionally consists of weapons costs.
U.S. District Choose Sharon Johnson Coleman ordered him held pending trial. She didn’t set a trial date and scheduled the subsequent listening to for Sept. 30.
The listening to got here simply days after U.S. authorities arrested Guzmán López and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a member of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, within the El Paso, Texas, space final week, in line with the U.S. Division of Justice.
Nevertheless, most of the particulars of the arrest operation stay unclear.
Final week, U.S. officers conversant in the scenario mentioned Guzmán López tricked Zambada into boarding a propeller aircraft in Mexico by telling him they had been going to search for property within the north of the nation.
As a substitute, the aircraft took each males to the US, the place Guzmán López had deliberate to show himself in, however Zambada had not.
Zambada’s lawyer, Frank Perez, disputed the model of occasions provided by U.S. officers. Perez mentioned Guzman Lopez “forcibly kidnapped” Zambada and introduced him to the US towards his will.
Zambada pleaded not responsible to drug costs final week in federal court docket in El Paso.
Mexico has opened an investigation into the occasions that led to the arrest of the 2 males.
His seize fueled theories about how U.S. authorities pulled off the feat and prompted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to take the weird step of issuing a public name to drug cartels to not battle one another.
“Those that interact in these unlawful actions know that confrontations is not going to remedy something,” Lopez Obrador mentioned Monday, including: “They’d exit and danger the lives of different human beings, so why make households endure?”
There have been no fast stories of a rise in violence over the weekend.
However the Sinaloa cartel has been divided for years by combating between followers of Zambada and rivals who comply with El Chapo’s sons, recognized collectively as Los Chapitos or “The Little Chapos.”
His father was convicted on drug costs in New York in 2019 and is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security jail.
DEA chief Anne Milgram mentioned Zambada’s arrest “strikes on the coronary heart of the cartel that’s accountable for many of the medication, together with fentanyl and methamphetamine, that kill Individuals from coast to coast.”
