According to a Mexican government spokesman, the United States has asked Mexico to extradite a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman who is accused of continuing his father’s criminal activities.
Although El Chapo was turned over to the United States in 2017, Ovidio Guzman, who was apprehended in January, is said to have assisted in managing his father’s notorious Sinaloa cartel.
The extradition request was presented to the foreign ministry and attorney general’s office by the US embassy in Mexico City, claimed the spokesman, who preferred not to be identified since he was not authorized to talk on the matter.
The 32-year-arrest old’s in the northwest city of Culiacan provoked a violent cartel retaliation, and the United States had offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his apprehension.
During the operation in the Sinaloa cartel stronghold, ten soldiers and 19 suspected criminals were murdered, and a dramatic gunfight spread fear at an airport.
For bringing in hundreds of tons of cocaine over a 25-year period, El Chapo is currently receiving a life sentence in the US.
A judge granted the United States until March 5 to submit an extradition request after Ovidio Guzman obtained a court order in January prohibiting his immediate extradition to the United States.
Washington claims that Ovidio Guzman participated in the management of around a dozen methamphetamine production facilities in Sinaloa and planned the distribution of cocaine and marijuana.
In addition, he is accused of ordering the murders of informants, a drug dealer, and a Mexican musician who declined to sing at his nuptials.
Security forces liberated him after his cartel launched a full-scale fight after they briefly arrested him in 2019 previously.
