Son of 'El Chapo' held in top-security prison in Mexico after 29 killed in arrest operation - CNN

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A Mexico City national justice halted the extradition of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son, alleged cause cartel person Ovidio Guzmán, to the United States connected Friday, a time aft helium was arrested successful an aggravated cognition successful bluish Mexico that led to the deaths of 29 people.

The US is seeking Guzmán’s extradition for cause trafficking and has offered up to $5 cardinal for accusation starring to the seizure of the antheral they accidental is “a elder subordinate of the Sinaloa Cartel.”

On Thursday, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard confirmed that determination is an apprehension warrant successful the US dated September 19, 2019, but said that the imaginable extradition of Guzmán would not beryllium contiguous owed to the formalities of the law. He besides stated that Guzmán has ongoing ineligible proceedings successful Mexico.

On Friday, the justice besides suspended a measurement that prevented Guzmán from communicating with his relatives and his ineligible team.

According to the ineligible resolution, Guzmán’s ineligible squad has 3 days to determine whether to ratify the measures they person filed successful favour of their client.

CNN has requested a effect from Guzmán’s defence but has not yet heard back. He is being held successful the Altiplano maximum information national prison, officials said Friday.

Video of El Chapo's lad being arrested (October 2019)

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Guzmán’s father, “El Chapo,” had escaped from Altiplano situation connected July 11, 2015 through a mile-long passageway that featured a motorcycle connected tracks. He was aboriginal captured and convicted successful the US 4 years aboriginal of 10 counts, including engaging successful a continuing transgression enterprise, cause trafficking and firearms charges. He was sentenced to beingness successful situation positive 30 years and ordered to wage $12.6 cardinal successful forfeiture.

Ovidio Guzmán was antecedently arrested by national authorities successful October 2019, but was released connected the orders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to debar further bloodshed.

His latest apprehension comes days earlier US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sojourn Mexico City to be the North American Leaders Summit.

Capturing Guzmán could beryllium a mode for López Obrador to amusement the US that helium is “in power of the equipped forces and Mexico’s information situation,” Gladys McCormick, a subordinate prof astatine Syracuse University who focuses connected Mexico-U.S. relations, told CNN successful an email.

“It besides defuses the powerfulness down immoderate inquire from the Biden medication to stem the tide of fentanyl and different narcotics crossed the border,” she added.

After Guzmán’s apprehension successful Culiacán connected Thursday, chaos erupted successful the city. The authorities asked citizens to question refuge owed to clashes successful respective areas.

His apprehension was the effect of a lengthy cognition which progressive 200 peculiar forces, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Friday. Local officials urged citizens to structure astatine location amid clashes with cartel members successful assorted parts of the city.

At slightest 19 suspected pack members and 10 subject unit died during convulsive clashes successful the bluish Mexican authorities of Sinaloa, aft authorities arrested Guzmán, on with 21 others. No civilian deaths oregon injuries were reported.

Security astatine Altiplano situation has been accrued since Guzmán was detained, the curate added.

The authorities of Sinaloa, wherever Culiacán is located, is location to 1 of the world’s astir almighty narcotics trafficking organizations, the Sinaloa Cartel, of which “El Chapo” was the leader.

The US State Department, which was offering a $5 cardinal reward for accusation starring to Guzmán’s arrest, wrote that instrumentality enforcement investigations indicated that Guzmán and his brother, Joaquín Guzmán-López, “inherited a large woody of the narcotics proceeds” pursuing the decease of different brother, Edgar Guzmán-López.

They “began investing ample amounts of the currency into the purchasing of marijuana successful Mexico and cocaine successful Colombia. They besides began purchasing ample amounts of ephedrine from Argentina and arranged for the smuggling of the merchandise into Mexico arsenic they began to experimentation with methamphetamine production,” the State Department said.

The brothers are besides alleged to oversee an estimated 11 “methamphetamine labs successful the authorities of Sinaloa,” the State Department says.