After his arrest, cartel members set fire to vehicles and went on a rampage, echoing a mass shooting in 2019, when the younger Guzmán was briefly detained but then freed to avoid bloodshed. given.
At the time, U.S. authorities had posted a $5 million reward for his arrest, charging him and his brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, with overseeing methamphetamine laboratories producing an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 pounds of meth per month in Sinaloa state. Was accused.
According to a website of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “Other information indicates that Ovidio Guzmán López ordered the murders of informants, a drug trafficker, and a popular Mexican singer who refused to sing at his wedding.” Was.”