The son of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman arrived in the United States this Friday after being extradited from Mexico to face drug trafficking charges.
In accordance with ABC NewsOvidio Guzman Lopez, 33, was indicted in April along with two dozen others as part of a crackdown on a global drug trafficking network run by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
The cartel used precursor chemicals sent from China to fuel the fentanyl crisis plaguing the United States, according to the charges. Mexican authorities have accused Ovidio of being a major trafficker in fentanyl, a synthetic drug responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States.
Guzman Lopez had been wanted by U.S. authorities since 2019 and was captured by Mexican military forces in January in a small town on the outskirts of Culiacan, the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state.