What’s next for Emma Coronel, wife of “Chapo” Guzmán, after the arrest

Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera was arrested at an airport near Washington for alleged involvement in drug trafficking, according to AFP.

They further confirmed that Aispuro, 31, is accused of being part of a ring that ships cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine to the United States, the Department of Justice.

The process Coronel must now go through begins with her presentation to a judge, according to statements provided by Mariel Colón Miró, Emma’s defense, to journalist Antonio San Juan de Infobae Mexico. In addition, he confirmed that the charges against him would be read to him.

However, until 8 p.m. on Monday, February 22 (Mexico time), the defender was unaware of the District of Columbia and Washington, but he expected the appearance to take place in the afternoon.

On the other hand, the defender ruled out traveling before the appearance, from New York to Washington, and said she would attend the case remotely and later decide whether He had to physically move to where his client is.

For its part, AFP assured that famous drug trafficker’s wife will plead not guilty Tuesday before an American judge.

Coronel will be represented by the lawyers who represented “Chapo” at his trial, Jeffrey Lichtman and Mariel Colón Miró.

The former beauty queen and mother of Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s twin daughters, born nine years ago in the United States, was arrested Monday at Dulles International Airport, in the state of Virginia, near the American capital.

According to court documents released by the agency, Coronel faces a charge of plot to distribute in the United States a kilogram or more of heroin, five kilos or more cocaine, a ton or more of marijuana and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.

In addition, she is accused of collaborating in two plots to help Guzmán escape Mexican prisons, including the escape from El Altiplano prison, located in Almoloya de Juárez, in July 2015.

On the other hand, they ensured that from 2012 to 2014, Coronel transmitted messages on behalf of Guzmán, while her husband avoided being captured by the Mexican authorities. Yes When “El Chapo” was arrested in 2014, he continued to do so by visiting him in prison..

Two years ago, Coronel attended her husband’s historic three-month trial in New York almost every day, watching and smiling at him from the public bench.

The authorities did not allow the young woman to visit him or speak to him by phone. He was also unable to touch it during the process, in which Coronel caused a sensation to the use lawyer Colón’s mobile phone in the court cafeteria, something absolutely forbidden.

During the trial, Coronel was sometimes presented to the public as her husband’s accomplice.

A cooperating witness who was the right-hand man of the former Sinaloa cartel leader said that In 2014 and 2015, when El Chapo was jailed in El Altiplano in Mexico, he relayed messages via Coronel to his aides to plan his escape through a 1.5 km long tunnel. who reached the shower in his cell.

* With information from AFP.

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