Emma colonel She played with her hair and expressed her indifference every time an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) showed up in front of a federal court in New York the private conversations that suggested she was somehow participating in the illegal cases from her husband, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, who was in the middle of his media process for leading the powerful Sinaloa Cartel for three decades. The strong rumor that the United States government had it in their sights ended this Monday, when Coronel arrived. Arrested at Dulles Airport in Virginia, charged with drug trafficking.
According to court documents, Coronel is charged with participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for import into the United States. The US Justice Department also believes that “ El Chapo’s wife conspired with others to help Guzmán escape from Altiplano prison on July 11, 2015.
These allegations are very similar to the charges brought up by the FBI at her husband’s trial.
At the time, the FBI revealed that it had obtained via text messages by infiltrating the communications of the Sinaloa cartel, Colonel warned ‘El Chapo’ about the presence of the army in his area, I asked him about his lieutenants, had a firearm in his possession In order to protect herself from her husband’s enemies, she learned of an escape attempt by the gangster and also worked together so that her daughters became the owners of a luxury home.
She owned one of the encrypted Blackberry cell phones that Guzmán distributed among his associates, lieutenants, and loved ones. The system shut down as planned after the FBI set a trap for the Colombian engineer who installed it and he eventually partnered with the agency.
“They fell to the house where he had things, the federal states of Mexico and they took everything”, It was read in one of the text messages Coronel Aispuro reportedly sent to Guzmán in early 2012, which was shown to the jury on January 9, 2019.
“They just killed some guys in Guadalupe Aren’t those your people? ‘ she asked him in another written statement. “No dear,” replied the drug dealer.
Coronel is also said to have been involved in the purchase of a luxury home in the city of Los Cabos, in Baja California Sur, where an operation was carried out on February 22, 2012 to capture ‘El Chapo’, it was revealed during the trial.
The idea was that the title deeds, valued at a million dollars, according to an FBI agent, they will be under false names of the capo’s twin daughters, both born in Los Angeles seven years ago. A “graduate” assisted in that process.
“So that the ‘reynitas’ have the properties with that name that will be registered,” Guzmán explained to Coronel.
On another occasion, concerned about a possible search of the house where his wife was, he asked him to place a weapon he had in a special place. “Put it on the nail,” Guzmán asked his wife.
During that hearing, the Public Prosecution Service showed various communications between ‘El Chapo’ and Coronel. The drug dealer in particular felt uncomfortable.
“If you see a suspicious car, let me know immediately to have it checked,” Guzmán asked him in another conversation.
Colonel and the second escape from ‘El Chapo’
One of the FBI overheard reports reveals that Emma’s father, Inés Coronel, a drug trafficking inmate, allegedly used his daughter’s cell phone to communicate with his son-in-law.
In one of those conversations they talk about drug trafficking across the border. “It’s a good cross there”, Inés Coronel tells Guzmán. “Who will help you there?” Asked ‘El Chapo’. “The people who came from ‘Markitos’,” he replied.
His boss and son-in-law also suggested that he call him on the radio, but on the Blackberry. “Don’t talk to other people so that the migra (Border Patrol) will chase (chase) other people as they are listening to all the radios. Have discretion, because no one does it with black (Blackberry) ”, said Guzmán.
A few weeks after these private messages were revealed, Dámaso López Núñez, aka ‘El Licenciado’, one of Joaquín Guzmán’s chief lieutenants, admitted He charged Coronel in the escape of ‘El Chapo’ from El Altiplano prison.
Apparently, López Núñez is one of the main witnesses in the criminal trial against the wife of ‘El Chapo’.
According to her story in court in Brooklyn, she acted as a messenger along with the children of Guzmán, who bought the land from which the tunnel connecting to the prison came out.
Alias ’El Licenciado’ said the escape was coordinated by Coronel and four of the capo’s sons, who bought a plot of land next to the prison where the tunnel through which cartel workers took Guzmán on a motorcycle. “My comadre has passed his messages on to us,” Lopez said, referring to Coronel.
When ‘El Chapo’ was arrested again after his escape from prison, his wife met ‘El Licenciado’ again on behalf of Guzmán, to ask him if he would be willing to organize another escape from El Altiplano.
López said they offered two million dollars to an official, who did not accept it. They planned to buy another piece of land to build a new tunnel in preparation for the leak. But everything fell apart when Guzmán was transferred to a prison in Ciudad Juárez and then, in January 2017, was extradited to the United States.
Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison just over a year ago. Coronel was not allowed to visit him in the maximum security prison where he is located.
