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Wife of Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ arrested at US airport
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WASHINGTON, Feb 23, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – US authorities arrested the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Monday at an airport outside of Washington on narcotics smuggling charges, the Justice Department said.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, faces one charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States, the department said.
She was arrested at Dulles International Airport.
Guzman was the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficking groups.
He ran an operation that delivered hundreds of tons of narcotics into the United States and was behind multiple murders of those who crossed him, according to court filings.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, faces one charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States, the department said.
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