Who is Ovidio Guzmán, the son of Chapo Guzmán wanted by the DEA?

His whereabouts are unknown.

The US Government announced millionaire rewards to locate Ovidio Guzmán López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Joaquín Guzmán López, children of Joaquín El Chapo Guzman.

“All four are high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel and each is subject to federal indictment for their involvement in illicit drug trafficking,” the US State Department said in a statement.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias El Chapo, a former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was extradited from Mexico to the United States on January 19, 2017 and sentenced to life in prison on July 17, 2019 in New York. He is currently serving his sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado.

Ovid The mouse Guzman

Ovidio Guzmán is the son of El Chapo fruit of his relationship with his second wife, Griselda López Pérez. Also know as The mouse, is 31 years old and is identified as a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel.

In 2012, the US Office of Asset Control (OFAC) included him among the list of people with whom they should not conduct business, transactions, money transfers, or identify their financial operations, since he was one of the sons of Joaquín Guzmán.

Wife of “Chapo” Guzmán, Emma Coronel, is sentenced to 3 years in prison in the United States

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When The mouse He was only 22 years old and was already a recognized member of the criminal organization that his father led.

Ovidio evidently played an important role in drug trafficking activities, and even in 2019, during the hearing of the Chapo In Brooklyn, New York, the young man was mentioned as one of the strategists who planned the escape of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, when he escaped from the El Altiplano prison in the State of Mexico in July 2015.

On February 21, 2019, an accusation was filed in the United States against Ovidio and his brother Joaquín Guzmán López, alias The Güero, for crimes of conspiracy to export cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to that country.

The indictment details in its four pages, that since approximately April 2008 and in Mexico, the United States and other countries, the defendants “willfully, knowingly and obstinately” conspired to distribute the substances.

The Mexican authorities located Ovidio in Culiacán, on October 17, 2019, who was subject to an arrest warrant issued in the US This situation led to a wave of violence in that city, led by the Sinaloa Cartel.

Due to these acts, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered the operation to be stopped and not to detain the subject – according to the president – to protect the citizens of Culiacán.

Was the reward of 5 million dollars ever collected for the capture of ‘Chapo’ Guzmán?

Although it is required by the US authorities, The mouse Guzmán is currently not wanted by the Mexican government, having no arrest warrants against him. His whereabouts are unknown. (I)

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