Emma Coronel, 31, was detained at Dulles Airport in Virginia on Monday
It s unclear where she had flown from or how prosecutors got her turn herself in
Coronel is accused of drug trafficking between 2014 and 2017
She s also accused of helping her husband Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, 63, of escaping from prison in Mexico in 2015
Prosecutors say she also plotted to get him out of prison in 2016, after he was recaptured but before he was extradited to the US
That plot failed, despite Coronel allegedly offering $2million to the head of Mexico s prison service and $1million to someone else to get him out of prison
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THE wife of ‘El Chapo’ has been held in jail without bond and is facing life for allegedly plotting her husband’s escapes and helping him run his drug empire.
Former beauty queen Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was branded a “flight risk” in today’s court hearing because of her links to Sinaloa Cartel criminals.
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Emma Coronel Aispuro is a former beauty queenCredit: Instagram
Aispuro, who has two daughters with notorious Mexico drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, has been accused of conspiring to distribute cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana in the US.
She was also charged with working alongside Guzman’s sons and a witness to build an underground tunnel that the kingpin used to escape from the Altiplano prison to prevent his extradition to the US.