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They Switch From ‘Guarded’ to ‘El Ratón’: Ovidio Guzmán Is Released From Prison as a Cooperating Witness

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After Ovidio Guzmán López, ‘El Ratón’, son of Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán, pleaded guilty in the U.S. for drug trafficking, money laundering and carrying weapons, it became known that he left the Chicago prison.Identified as a leader of the faction of ‘Los Chapitos’, of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ovidio, upon pleading guilty, became a contributing witness to the U.S. authorities, so he will not face trial and his sentence could be reduced from a possible li…

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After Ovidio Guzmán López, ‘El Ratón’, son of Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán, pleaded guilty in the U.S. for drug trafficking, money laundering and carrying weapons, it became known that he left the Chicago prison.Identified as a leader of the faction of ‘Los Chapitos’, of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ovidio, upon pleading guilty, became a contributing witness to the U.S. authorities, so he will not face trial and his sentence could be reduced from a possible li…

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Under federal custody, with policemen guarding his life, is Ovidio “Ratón” Guzmán López, former leader of “Los Chapitos”, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, who left Chicago’s metropolitan prison as a Mafia teller before the U.S. government. MORE INFORMATION: In a native community they age slower than in other parts of the world. Leaving prison as a protected witness to rat out criminals is risky, but in any case the prize is to be set free unlike…

The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York announced that it dismissed the drug trafficking charges it filed against Ovidio Guzmán López.

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After pleading guilty to the crimes charged to him in the neighboring country of the north, Ovidio Guzmán no longer appears in the #EU prison bureau, but remains in the custody of the US authorities, in a secret place, now as part of the protected witness program

Mexican Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of Joaquín “el Chapo,” pleaded guilty to four drug trafficking charges in a Chicago court as part of a guilty plea agreement with U.S. authorities whose terms were not disclosed. The so-called “Raton” thus renounces a trial by pleading guilty to four counts of organized crime and drug trafficking on the 12th floor of a Chicago court. He was dressed in an orange prison monkey and handcuffs on his feet. Guzmán …

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MADRID 16 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS). – Ovidio Guzmán López, son of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin ‘El Chapo Guzmán’, has left prison following the agreement reached with the U.S. authorities to plead guilty to several drug trafficking crimes and protected in a secret place while continuing to collaborate. López, known as ‘El Ratón’, has been released from prison on Monday, July 14, after pleading guilty last Friday before a Chicago court, a…

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Periódico Expreso - Más Cerca de Ti broke the news in on Tuesday, July 15, 2025.
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