“Chapo” Guzman’s wife arrested at airport for drug trafficking

The famous wife Mexican drug dealer Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán she was arrested Monday at Dulles International Airport near Washington on suspicion of being involved in a drug trafficking ring, US authorities said.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, with dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship, is scheduled to appear in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for the first time Tuesday via video conference, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Her husband was the head of the Sinaloa cartel, considered the most powerful drug trafficker in the world before being extradited to the United States in 2017. He was sentenced to life in prison in July 2019 and is serving his sentence in a high security prison. in Colorado.

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According to court documents, Coronel, mother of two twin daughters of Guzmán, aged nine, faces charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for import into the United States.

Además, esta exreina de belleza presuntamente colaboró ​​en dos plots para ayudar a Guzmán a escapar de prisiones mexicanas, incluida la fuga de la prisión del Altiplano, ubicada en Almoloya de Juárez, in julio de 2015. Durante el proceso contra Guzmán, hubo moment What Coronel was presented to the public as her husband’s accomplice in business and during one of his prison escapes.

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A cooperating witness who was the right-hand man of the former Sinaloa cartel leader said that in 2014 and 2015, while El Chapo was in the Altiplano prison in Mexico, he transmitted messages through the Coronel’s intermediary – who visited him in prison – to his accomplices. to plan his escape through a 1.5 km long tunnel that led to the shower in his cell.

At another point in the trial, the prosecution released an intercepted phone call between Coronel and El Chapo, in which she passed the phone to her father, also a drug dealer. El Chapo then advises his stepfather about a drug crossing at the border with the United States.

“My name has been mentioned several times and questioned (sic),” Coronel admitted two years ago after the trial. “I can only say that I have no reason to be ashamed. I am not perfect, but I consider myself a good human being who has never intentionally hurt anyone,” Coronel told the time.

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