![]() ![]() 1 ("Altiplano"), a maximum security federal prison in Almoloya de Juárez, later that afternoon. The Air Force flew Guzmán López by helicopter to the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. Reports of his arrest were later confirmed by Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval, who stated that personnel from the Army, National Guard, Secretariat of National Defense and Secretariat of the Navy had captured him and also managed to successfully transport him to Mexico City, where he was then taken to offices of the Attorney General’s organized crime special prosecutor. On 5 January 2023, the authorities arrested Guzmán López in the Jesús María district of Culiacán. We have also found irregularities." 2023 recapture On, Santiago Nieto, head of Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), confirmed that the Government of Mexico froze Ovidio Guzmán's assets, stating, "We have frozen the accounts of Ovidio and of 330 people linked to the cartel and have filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office. The next month, however, one of the officers who arrested Ovidio, identified as Eduardo N., was assassinated. Hours later, Ovidio Guzmán was freed, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador saying he supported the decision in order to "prevent more bloodshed". Heavily armed cartel gunmen (numbering over 700) threatened mass civilian deaths, including an attack to the apartment complex housing the relatives of the local military personnel. ![]() On 17 October 2019, members of the National Guard briefly arrested Ovidio Guzmán López in Culiacán, Sinaloa, setting off several gun battles in the city. Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the full unsealing of the indictment on 13 February 2019. On 12 December 2018, the indictment was unsealed for the limited purpose of disclosure in an extradition proceeding pursuant to the Jencks Act. The sealed indictment was filed 2 April 2018. In July 2017, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia empaneled a grand jury that formally indicted both Ovidio Guzmán López and his brother Joaquín Guzmán López on charges of participating in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana since 2008. In 2019, the Associated Press reported that he leads the cartel along with his brothers Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán, and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. It is widely reported that Guzmán López took on a prominent role of the Sinaloa Cartel after his father's arrest. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury named him a "Key Lieutenant" of his father and the Sinaloa Cartel in a 2012 sanctions Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act ("Kingpin Act").
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