MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican drug lord Ovidio Guzman has reached a plea deal with U.S. authorities over drug trafficking charges he faced in the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. court records showed on Tuesday.
Ovidio, son of the convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was considered one of the leaders of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel until he was captured and extradited to the U.S. in 2023.
The court records did not give any detail on the terms of the plea agreement.
According to U.S. authorities, Ovidio and his brothers, known collectively as “Los Chapitos,” ran an extensive drug trafficking operation and “allegedly reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by flooding the United States with fentanyl.”
Ovidio originally pled not guilty to charges of fentanyl trafficking. He is now scheduled to attend an in-person change of plea hearing on July 9.
His lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, did not reply to an immediate request for comment.
(Reporting by Brendan O’Boyle, Natalia Siniawski in Mexico City and Luc Cohen in New York, Editing by Laura Gottesdiener and Stephen Coates)
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