Chapo’s son confesses that he drugged and kidnapped the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel to take him to the US by plane and hand him over

Joaquín Guzmán Lópezson of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, the The historic leader of the Sinaloa Cartel pleaded guilty this Monday in a US federal court to crimes related to drug trafficking and organized crimedespite having defended his innocence last year. The Güeroas he is also known, appeared in a District Court for Northern Illinois, in the city of Chicago and expressed his willingness to collaborate with US Justice.

Guzmán López was the protagonist of one of the most high-profile blows that the anti-drug authorities have managed to deliver in recent years to the management of one of the most important criminal organizations in Mexico. In the operation, carried out in El Paso (Texas) at the end of July 2024, it was also possible to capture Ismael May Zambadathe other leader and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel.

And everything was possible thanks to the betrayal of The Güero: Guzmán López confessed before the judge that he had convinced El Mayo to come out of his hiding place in the mountains of Sinaloa and had kidnapped and drugged to hand him over to DEA agents.

Guzmán López’s plea agreement states that the US government did not “request, induce, sanction, approve or consent” to the kidnapping plan. However, it took place after Guzmán López contacted the FBI through a secret communication channel, according to The New York Times.

The Güero has reported that he convinced the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel to make an appointment with the aim of resolving a political dispute, but when he entered a room without windows They put a bag over his head, tied his hands and they took him in a van to a nearby runway to put him on a private plane. So that Mayon whom there was a reward of 15 million dollars, did not resist and was given a drink with sedatives.

Ismael Zambada, through his lawyer, had already revealed part of the operation in a letter released by his lawyer shortly after his arrest, in which he said that the meeting took place on the outskirts of Culiacán and that he was going to meet with the governor of Sinaloa.

Guzmán López, during the appearance, proclaimed himself responsible for supervising the distribution of drugs such as cocaine, heroin or fentanyl while leading a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel with his brother Ovidwho last July also declared his guilt before the same judge on four charges related to drug trafficking.

Andrew Erskine, an assistant US attorney working on the case, said Guzmán López hoped that the kidnapping of May would provide him and his brother Ovidio with a loan from the Government that could lead to more favorable sentences. However, neither is expected to get any reduction.

For its part, in August May Zambada formally pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking, money laundering and weapons use against him in federal court in New York.