Ovid Guzman was captured yesterday morning in Sinaloa, however, at night, his status in the National Detention Registry appeared as “released”, which is part of the process with which his extradition is sought to USA.
“Ovidio Guzmán was arrested (…) and, so to speak, they let him ‘free’. Either because he has the right to freedom or the flagrante delicto was not well proven, they let him go, but he has an arrest warrant, so they arrest him once more, ”he explained to Latin Manuel Escalante, expert in criminal law.
In the morning, Adam Augusto LopezSecretary of the Interior, explained the crimes for which the son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
“He was arrested in flagrante delicto for various crimes, possession of weapons for the exclusive use of the Army, attempted homicide and others, but he made himself available to the police. General Prosecutor of the Republicwho executed the arrest warrant in terms of extradition,” he said during the morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
After Ovid Guzman was arrested in culiacanhe was “freed” from the crimes for which he was apprehended, to then comply with the arrest warrant for extradition purposes.
“It might also be that criminal action was not brought once morest the crimes for which he was arrested, he might have been released, but since he was notified that he had to comply with an order that he already had, criminal action was brought once morest that order,” Escalante explained.
Yesterday followingnoon, the drug trafficker was transferred to the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number no. 1 (Altiplano) in the State of Mexico. Today, a federal judge ordered preventive detention for extradition purposes once morest him for 60 days, during which time the United States government must formalize its extradition request.
According to the FGR, since September 2019 there has been a request for extradition by the United States for the son of “El Chapo” Guzman.
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In the morning, a federal judge froze the extradition of Ovid Guzman following granting him an amparo and, likewise, ordered that the communication of the drug trafficker should not be avoided, which allows him to contact his relatives and defense attorneys.
The judge’s decision stems from the amparo appeals filed by his defense lawyers, who requested the suspension of the extradition process.
Ovid, otherwise “The mouse”was one of the lesser-known heirs of the Sinaloa Cartel until the “Culiacanazo” of October 17, 2019, a failed operation of the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in which the authorities captured him, but later released him for acts of terror by organized crime in Culiacán.
