Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of popular notorious Mexican drug (El Chapo), was arrested at Dulles International Airport, USA and is now facing one charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States.
According to court filings, El Chapo (Joaquin Guzman) who is the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficking groups, ran an operation that delivered hundreds of tons of narcotics into the United States and was behind multiple murders of those who crossed him,
He was extradited to the United States in 2017 to stand trial, and was convicted and sentenced to life in prison two years later. Emma Coronel Aispuro, who is 31 and a dual US-Mexico citizen, according to the Justice Department, took part in cartel activities and also allegedly assisted in two plots to help Guzman escape from Mexican prison, including the successful first one in 2015.
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Coronel is expected to appear by video conference in federal district court in Washington on Tuesday. Her US lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, told AFP she would be pleading “not guilty.”
