Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as “El Chapo,” was arrested in Virginia this Monday afternoon.
US authorities They accuse the partner of the former Sinaloa cartel leader of international drug traffickingthe Justice Department said in a statement.
Coronel, 31, with Mexican and US citizenships, was detained at Dulles International Airport. It will be presented by video conference to the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia this Tuesday.
Guzmán Loera is serving a life sentence plus 30 years in Florence Maximum Security Prison, Colorado.
The Sinaloan capo was convicted of 10 charges, including multiple accounts of cocaine distribution in the United States.
[Emma Coronel estaría bajo investigación por su presunto rol en la fuga de El Chapo en el 2015]
Coronel, also originally from Sinaloa, is specifically accused of it conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana
She is also singled out for helping her husband escape from a Mexican maximum security prison in 2015, the Department of Defense statement said.
The lawyers Jeffrey Lichtman and Mariel Colón, who were part of the defense in the trial of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, they will also represent colonel, as confirmed by Noticias Telemundo.
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