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By: The opinion Posted 16 Sep 2023, 2:11 pm EDT
Ovidio Guzman and his team of lawyers tried to prevent his extradition to the United States, because they feared that he would have the same fate as his father, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmánwho was sentenced to life imprisonment for 10 crimes related to drug trafficking, weighs 11 on “El Ratón”, but the efforts came to an end in the middle of Mexico’s national holidays, and a fact has been widely noted saying that it may be an omen .
And it is that Ovidio was taken to the United States on the same plane in which his father was extradited to the country in January 2017., two years before he received the sentence. This is the Bombardier Challenger 605 jet of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) of Mexico, which left the City of Toluca, in the State of Mexico, heading to Teterboro, New Jersey, according to the Mexican newspaper Milenio.
So far the destination state of “El Ratón” is unknown; it is speculated that Chicago will face charges in Illinois – where he is accused of drug trafficking, organized crime and illegal possession of firearms, along with his brothers Iván, Jesús Alfredo and Joaquín – although there are also charges against him in Washington and New York.
Ovidio Guzmán was notified of his extradition moments before it took place, just on the day that Mexico celebrated the national holidays, it was reported that he was taken from the Altiplano maximum security prison, in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, by Interpol agents.
A day later, on Saturday, September 16, former DEA agent Derek S. Maltz shared on his social networks the first photograph of Ovidio Guzmán in the United States. The most famous of Chapo’s sons was still wearing the prisoner uniform that he used in the Altiplano, he can be seen wearing glasses and very thin, something that people commented on different platforms.
Maltz accompanied the photograph with a message that mixed irony and information: “Ovidio Guzmán, welcome to America and enjoy the family reunion with your father El Chapo in the maximum federal prison.”
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