Joaquín Guzmán López's Sentencing-Prep Hearing Postponed Again, to March 1, 2027

The Chicago federal court overseeing Joaquín Guzmán López's case postponed his sentencing-preparation ('intermediate') hearing — previously rescheduled to August 31, 2026 — a further six months, to March 1, 2027, before Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman. The hearing exists to prepare the sentencing report for Guzmán López, who pleaded guilty in December 2025 to drug-trafficking and continuing-criminal-enterprise charges tied to orchestrating Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada's July 2024 forcible transport to the United States. Neither the court nor his defense publicly detailed the reason for the delay, continuing the pattern of repeated postponements seen in the parallel cases of Ovidio Guzmán López and El Mayo Zambada.