World News – USA – El Chapo’s wife arrested for drug trafficking

The wife of notorious convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested on Monday for her alleged role in an international drug trafficking program according to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office

Emma Coronel Aispuro, citizen of Mexico and the USASwas caught at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C.The Justice Department said in a press release Coronel Aispuro, 31, was accused of participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana to the USsaid the DOJ

She allegedly also conspired with others to help El Chapo escape a Mexican prison in July 2015. In this outbreak, Guzman freed himself on a motorcycle through an entrance under the shower in his cell into a milelong-lit tunnel on rails

Court records accuse Coronel Aispuro of working with Guzman’s sons and a witness who is now working with the US Government to organize the construction of the underground tunnel that Guzman used to escape Altiplano Prison to prevent extradition to the US The conspiracy included the purchase of land near the prison, firearms and an armored truck, and the smuggling of a GPS watch so that they could “pinpoint his exact location in order to build the tunnel with an entry point accessible to him.” it in the court records

After her husband was arrested again the following year, Coronel Aispuro was “busy planning another escape from prison” before Guzman was extradited to the US In 2017, after Guzman was arrested again after his escape, Coronel Aispuro campaigned with the Mexican government to improve the conditions of her husband’s detention

Coronel Aispuro is due to appear in Washington D. Federal Court Tuesday She remained in custody and it was not immediately clear if she had a lawyer to comment on the allegations

The former teenage beauty queen regularly took part in Guzman’s trial, even if the testimony put her in a harsh light The two, who are more than 30 years old, have been together since at least 2007 and share twin daughters born in 2011

Her father, Ines Coronel Barreras, was arrested in 2013 with one of his sons and several other men in a warehouse of hundreds of pounds of marijuana across the Douglas, Arizona border, months earlier when the U.S. The Treasury Department announced financial sanctions against Coronel Barreras for alleged drug trafficking

Guzman was tried in the Eastern District of New York in 2019 and sentenced to life behind bars in a massive drug conspiracy that spanned murder and mayhem for more than two decades.Following his conviction in 2019, Coronel Aispuro started a clothing line in his Names

He was known to be the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, which was responsible for smuggling mountains of cocaine and other drugs into the United States during his 25-year reign, prosecutors said in recent court files, they also said that his ” Army of Sicarios “or” batsmen “was ordered to kidnap, torture and kill anyone who stood in his way

Emma Coronel Aispuro, El Chapo