Dámaso López Serrano, “El Mini Lic”, recaptured by the FBI in the United States, is remembered for having surrendered to the DEA in 2017 because He feared being murdered by the sons of his godfather: Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
He is the son of Dámaso López Núñez, “El Licensed”, who was the right-hand man of “El Chapo” Guzmán, and who in 2018 was extradited to the United States.
Godson of the founding boss of the Sinaloa Cartel, “El Mini Lic” and his father, Dámaso López Núñez, “El Licensed”, unsuccessfully sought control of the criminal group.
In September 2022, “El Mini Lic” was released from prison after a judge from the Southern District Court of California determined that he collaborated sufficiently with the authorities. by providing information against his godfather and “Los Chapitos”.
According to the ministerial statement of Dámaso López Núñez, extradited in July 2018 to United States, Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, “Los Chapitos”, They had a dispute with their son “El Mini Lic”, even over the corridos; According to him, they had sent his son to him.
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“El Mini Lic”, sentenced to 6 years in prison for drug trafficking
After surrendering to the DEA, Dámaso López Serrano, “El Mini Lic”, served as a cooperating witness with the US authorities and was sentenced to 72 months in prison (6 years). after pleading guilty to drug trafficking.
In 2020, a federal judge issued an arrest warrant against “El Mini Lic” for his alleged responsibility in the intellectual authorship of the murder of Sinaloan journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, founder of the weekly Río Doce and correspondent for the newspaper “La Jornada.”
For this reason, the FGR began proceedings for the extradition to Mexico of “El Mini Lic”, godson of “El Chapo”, who He is under criminal proceedings for fentanyl trafficking in the United States.
Before it was delivered to the United States, “El Mini Lic” enjoyed money from drug trafficking and liked to show off his excesses through social networks.
In a corrido performed by regional Mexican singer Gerardo Ortiz, It is assured that “El Mini Lic” always had the support of his godfather and that he respected him.
With information from SUN.
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