Judge gives preventive detention to Ovidio Guzmán for two months

If by March 5 the US authorities have not made a formal request for the extradition of Ovidio Guzmán before the Mexican justice system, the decreed measures will expire. Photo: Special.

Delilah Ramirez

a judge of Federal Justice Center of the highlandsin Almoloya of juarezdecreed the provisional detention for extradition purposes against Ovid alias The mouseTherefore, he will remain in federal prison for the next two months waiting for the United States government to make the formal request.

If by March 5 the US authorities have not made the formal extradition request before the Mexican justice, the decreed measures will expire, he warned in a hearing this Friday.

Ovid He arrived at room number 1 at 1:23 p.m. dressed in gray pants and a white three-layer face mask, short hair and a trimmed beard with a calm attitude; he spoke little and only gave general information about him and only nodded or denied on several occasions. His attitude was calm and before entering he met with the three lawyers who are part of his private defense.

The application of pretrial detention for extradition purposes was requested by state Joined in a diplomatic note on September 19, 2019, which stems from the arrest warrant against him before the Court of Columbia in 2018.

When informing Ovidio of the reasons for his arrest, from the prosecution They shared that the crime for which he is being persecuted in the neighboring country to the north is for criminal association to distribute drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to be distributed there from somewhere abroad.

Federal prosecutors and the MP detailed that since the 1990s they have been investigating the Pacific Cartelwhich distinguished itself by transporting large amounts of drugs, money laundering, and whose organization is still active, in addition to the fact that its products are obtained from Colombia either Ecuadorthey move it to Mexico and distribute it in the Union American.

Due to the delay in the hearing by two hours, the judge imposed a fine of 19,244 pesos on the director of the federal prison and another for the same amount to the commissioner of Social Readaptation for the “negligent” attitude and because there was no justification for Ovidio’s delay in arriving.

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