El Chapo" Guzman's son Joaquín Guzmán López pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges Tuesday, days after an astonishing capture in the U.S. Joaquin Guzman Lopez's was produced in Chicago federal court before U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, who ordered him detained pending trial. Guzman Lopez could face the death penalty if convicted, as per a report on Reuters.
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This came after El Chapo's son delivered his father's former partner to U.S. authorities.
Guzman Lopez was indicted in 2023 along with three of his brothers — known as the «Chapitos,» or little Chapos — on U.S. drug trafficking and money laundering charges involving their assumption of leadership of their father's Sinaloa Cartel after his 2017 extradition to the United States.
El Chapo, convicted on murder and drug charges in 2019, is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado.
Guzman Lopez, who is in his late 30s, was taken into the US custody on Thursday night near El Paso, Texas alongside Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada, the septuagenarian accused drug kingpin who founded the Sinaloa Cartel together with El Chapo.
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Last week, U.S. officials familiar with the situation said Guzman Lopez duped Zambada into boarding a