An alleged handwritten letter from Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán is one of the pieces of evidence on which the investigation was based to arrest his wife, Emma Coronel, who was accused of international drug trafficking in the United States on Monday.
Among the evidence FBI agent Eric S. McGuire is recording in an affidavit filed on Wednesday, Feb. 17 to obtain the warrant for his arrest against Coronel, is said document handwritten in the person who negotiates with a partner about the heroin trade.
Heroin trade
“Taking into account Cleto increase production to make it work. Say hello to CletoPlease tell him to lend me a hand so that the first sale is on my part… because I have a lot of expenses here, ”says the letter quoted in the document.
McGuire indicates in this document that Cleto is a Durango-based drug trafficker who produces heroin for El Chapo Guzman. He also indicates that when he speaks of “many expenses,” he is referring to the bribes he had to pay in prison, in addition to the money to support his family.
“The mother of twins it will say something to you and my kids. Please, be considerate compadreShe will explain it to you, “says the letter.” The mother of the twins has a message for all of you. The twins’ mother is a Colonel, the FBI agent said.
[El arresto de Emma Coronel evidencia la sospecha de EE.UU. de que ella ayudó a ‘El Chapo’ a manejar el Cártel de Sinaloa]
According to McGuire, this letter has been authenticated by several witnessesincluding cooperating witness number 1. A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) source confirmed to Noticias Telemundo that the witness referred to by the FBI agent Damaso lopez, also known as To graduate, a former employee of El Chapo who spoke out against him at trial in 2019.
The letter is said to have been written by Guzmán during one of the periods he spent in detention in the Altiplano, the maximum security prison in the state of Mexico, between 2014 and 2017, which was interrupted by his escape in July 2015.
Dámaso López served as deputy warden of the Puente Grande prison in Jalisco, from where he escaped El Chapo in 2001. He has also been linked to the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on May 15, 2017.
López testified at Guzmán’s trial that Coronel had helped him carry out his elaborate 2015 escape plan from the Altiplano.
McGuire adds that Colonel is selling the money more than five kilos of heroin by Cleto and cooperating witness 1.
‘I know that from my research Cleto and cooperating Witness 1 provided Coronel with the drug of more than 5 pounds of heroin, ” McGuire said in the indictment.
Collaboration in the escape of ‘El Chapo’
Similarly, Officer McGuire also describes how Coronel allegedly helped her husband escape a Mexican maximum security prison in 2015.
Cooperating Witness 1 told me that Coronel agreed to help Guzmán escape from Altiplano through an underground tunnel. According to Cooperating Witness 1, Coronel met with him and asked him to help Guzmán escape from the Altiplano prison. Cooperating Witness 1 voted. to help, ”the document describes.
[Emma Coronel estaría bajo investigación por su presunto rol en la fuga de El Chapo en el 2015]
The document states that she acted as a messenger between Guzmán Loera and his partners and children, Iván, Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquín. For example, the handwritten letter signed by Guzmán Loera, authenticated by multiple witnesses, contains detailed instructions on the ongoing operations of the Sinaloa cartel, including the transportation of narcotics.
‘I ask you to always agree with my four children. Hire accountants across the country and pay the boys and widows from there, and what’s left each month is half for you and half for them celebrating, ” he wrote. El Chapo to an employee.
Citing protected witnesses, the FBI describes in these documents how Coronel helped run her husband’s drug empire, assisted him with transports between 2012 and 2014, and helped him evade US and Mexican authorities.
Coronel grew up knowing the narcotics industry and married Guzmán when she was a teenager … Coronel was aware of the tons of cocaine shipments being shipped, the tons of heroin being produced … he understood the drug proceeds which he controlled during his marriage to Guzmán, ”the document reads.
El Chapo she married Coronel in 2007 when she was only 17 years old; She was the daughter of Inés Coronel, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The FBI agent claims in the document that Coronel “provided cooperating witness # 1 about $ 100,000 and instructed him / her to arrange the purchase of real estate near the prison.” To do this, he would have spent about $ 1 million in total.
Coronel is said to have met López and four of Guzmán’s children to buy the land and make plans to excavate the tunnel through which her husband would escape on a motorcycle on rails, including the logistics of taking him to the Sinaloan mountains.
Lawyers Jeffrey Lichtman and Mariel Colón, who were part of the defense in the trial against El Chapo Guzmán will also represent Coronel, although they were unable to provide further details on the allegations he is facing.
Coronel, 31, with Mexican and US citizenships, was detained at Dulles International Airport. It will be presented by video conference on Tuesday in the Federal Court of the District of Columbia. The woman, also originally from Sinaloa, is specifically charged with conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana.
Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations for the US drug agency DEA, said she was “involved in drug trafficking since she was a little girl. He knows very well how the Sinaloa Cartel works. ‘
“I believe the Chapitos (Guzmán’s sons from previous relationships) and Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada (who is believed to be the current cartel leader) are now shaking,” he said, believing Coronel likely will. cooperate with US authorities. ”Vigil said the same in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
“He’ll cooperate, I have no doubt,” Vigil said. “She has great motivation and those are her twins,” he added.
With information from AP and Reforma.