A former New York state trooper who shot himself then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway last year has been sentenced to six months in jail.

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” intends to plead guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

A former New York state trooper has pleaded guilty to charges that he shot himself then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway.

A son of notorious drug kingpin “El Chapo” has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges in a Chicago courtroom days after an astonishing capture in the U.S. Joaquín Guzmán López was dressed in an orange jumpsuit and shackled at the feet Tuesday as federal prosecutors detailed a five-count indictment including drug trafficking and weapons charges.

Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter after a judge rejected a First Amendment claim by the conservative nonprofit Project Veritas to stop investigators from seeing the records.