(30 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago- July 30 2024
1. Federal Court building exterior
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sophia Tareen, The Associated Press:
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"Today was the arraignment and first appearance for Joaquín Guzmán López, who is a son of the drug cartel leader El Chapo, and he was brought into court today. He was shackled. He was wearing an orange jumpsuit. The judge asked him if he needed an interpreter. He said no, he can speak in English. And he basically answered the judge's questions to assess that he was okay to proceed and understood what was happening."
3. Various of Federal Court building
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sophia Tareen, The Associated Press:
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"So one of the big mysteries of this case and how it ended up in Chicago was how U.S. authorities captured Guzmán López and another top leader of the Sinaloa cartel who's evaded U.S. authorities for years. A private airplane in the El Paso, Texas, area was apprehended, and both men were taken into custody."
5. Various of exterior of Federal Court building
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sophia Tareen, The Associated Press:
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"Basically, the federal prosecutors outlined some of the details in a five count indictment. And in terms of the charges, they were weapons charges, drug trafficking charges. He pleaded not guilty, will be back in court in late September."
7. Federal Court building exterior
STORYLINE:
Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of notorious drug kingpin “El Chapo,” pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges Tuesday, days after an astonishing capture in the U.S.
Guzmán López, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, stood with feet shackled as federal prosecutors in Chicago detailed a five-count indictment that also includes weapons charges.
He declined a Spanish interpreter and answered most of U.S. District Judge Sharon Coleman's questions designed to determine if he understood the proceedings with a simple, “Yes, your honor.”
Guzmán López and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel were arrested by U.S. authorities in the El Paso, Texas-area last week, according to the Justice Department. Both men, who face multiple charges in the U.S., oversaw the trafficking of “tens of thousands of pounds of drugs into the United States, along with related violence,” according to the FBI.
Their detention follows arrests of other Sinaloa cartel figures, including one of his sons and another "El Chapo” son, Ovidio Guzmán López, who pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges in Chicago last year. Zambada’s son pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court in San Diego in 2021 to being a leader in the Sinaloa cartel.
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