The hearing for drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán López, leader of Los Chapitos and son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, has been postponed from November 13 to December 1.
The judge overseeing the case, Sharon Johnson Coleman, indicated in a document published this Monday that she is postponing Guzmán’s hearing again, which was scheduled to take place this Thursday in a federal court in Chicago.
This is the third time this hearing has been postponed, having previously been rescheduled from July 15 to September 15 and from September 15 to November 13.
Last July, Ovidio Guzmán López, another of El Chapo’s sons and Joaquín’s brother, pleaded guilty to four drug trafficking-related charges in a Chicago court as part of an agreement with US authorities, the terms of which were not disclosed.
Similarly, in August, Mexican drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder and historical leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, formally pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking, money laundering, and weapons use against him in a federal court in New York.
