Just a few days after a Chicago court postponed Ovidio Guzmán López's sentencing hearing to July 27, the date was postponed again and is now set until October 28.

This was announced through a notification issued by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, in which the date scheduled for this month was canceled and the calendar of the judicial process was modified.

In said hearing, the sentence that the member of Los Chapitos will face, who previously pleaded guilty to charges related to drug trafficking in the United States.

Although the reasons for this postponement were not made known, the measure could be due to reviewing in more detail the reports presented by the United States Attorney's Office and evaluating the level of cooperation of Ovidio Guzmán López with the US authorities before handing down the sentence.

As part of the agreement reached with the United States Prosecutor's Office, Ovidio Guzmán López pleaded guilty to leading a criminal organization dedicated to trafficking fentanyl and other drugs into the United States, in addition to acknowledging his participation as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Prosecutors maintained that Ovidio Guzmán and his brothers, Iván Archivaldo, Joaquín and Jesús Alfredo, took charge of the activities of the Sinaloa cartel when “El Chapo” was imprisoned in the United States and that they were in charge of reorganizing the cartel through the sale of fentanyl.

The trial of Ovidio Guzmán occurs in the midst of other judicial proceedings involving his brother Joaquín Guzmán López and other important members of the criminal organization, such as Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.