Overview
- Federal filings on Friday set a change‑of‑plea hearing for Monday in the U.S. District Court in Chicago before Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman at 1:30 p.m.
- Local coverage reports prosecutors will not pursue the death penalty and indicates a plea deal may be in progress.
- Guzman Lopez was arrested in July 2024 after arriving at an airstrip near El Paso with Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who says he was deceived and delivered to U.S. authorities.
- The fallout fractured the Sinaloa Cartel into warring factions, with officials attributing roughly 1,200 deaths and about 1,400 disappearances to the infighting.
- Brother Ovidio Guzman pleaded guilty in July 2025 and said the siblings took over operations, while Ivan Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo remain at large with $10 million U.S. rewards.