The wife of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was arrested Monday in Virginia on charges related to her alleged involvement in international drug trafficking, the Justice Department announced. The complaint says the FBI believes she took messages from Guzmán to his lieutenants, associates and four sons before and while El Chapo was in a Mexican prison. Prosecutors said Coronel conspired with others to assist her husband in his July 11, 2015, escape from a prison in Mexico. He is expected to serve out his sentence in the nation’s most secure federal prison in Florence, Colorado. The FBI alleges in the complaint that her father, Ines, was a member of Guzmán’s drug cartel.

Source: Daily Nation February 23, 2021 02:37 UTC