Has El Chapo Escaped 2018
FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, leaves federal court in New York. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia. Feb 25, 2021 Coronel, along with El Chapo’s sons and others, “agreed to organize the construction of an underground tunnel linked to Altiplano in order to facilitate Guzman’s escape from prison.” The plot involved purchasing a piece of land near the prison, where a structure was built to disguise the tunneling work. Feb 25, 2021 Kevin Hagen/AP Show More Show Less 2 of 5 FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2018 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, arrives to federal court in New York. Despite her status. WASHINGTON — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Monday and is expected to appear in. Kevin Hagen/AP Show More Show Less 2 of 5 FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2018 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, arrives to federal court in New York. Despite her status.
The wife of the notorious drug lord El Chapo is a former beauty queen who unwaveringly supports her husband
- The wife of drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was arrested Monday on drug trafficking charges.
- The Justice Department said Emma Coronel Aispuro helped plot her husband's prison escape in 2015.
- The former beauty queen has stood by her husband since she married him on her 18th birthday.
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The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was arrested Monday, February 22, at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking charges, according to the US Department of Justice.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, is accused of helping plot her husband's escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and was reportedly 'engaged in planning yet another prison escape' before her husband was extradited to the US in 2017, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Coronel Aispuro, who is a dual citizen of the US and Mexico, is expected to appear in federal court on Tuesday.
The federal trial against the infamous Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman ended in 2019 when he was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years - and the kingpin's former beauty queen wife was by his side through it all.
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Guzman pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges connected to claims that he built a multi-billion-dollar fortune by smuggling cocaine and other drugs across the Mexico-US border.
After years on the run, Guzman was extradited to the United States in 2017 and was held in solitary confinement in a high-security prison as he awaited trial, The Associated Press reported. He is now serving his life sentence.