Overview
- Guzmán López entered a guilty plea in Chicago and agreed to extensive cooperation with law enforcement under a court-approved deal.
- The agreement sets a minimum prison term of ten years with the possibility of avoiding a statutory life sentence based on his cooperation and the judge’s discretion.
- He admitted to drug trafficking and participation in a continuing criminal enterprise tied to smuggling hundreds of thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States.
- The deal includes an $80 million financial penalty to be imposed alongside his prison sentence.
- Two of his brothers remain fugitives with U.S. rewards of $10 million each, as authorities link recent factional fighting in the Sinaloa cartel to hundreds of killings and disappearances.