WASHINGTON, D.C.: US authorities arrested the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Monday at an airport outside of Washington on narcotics smuggling charges, the Justice Department said. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, faces one charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States, the department said. He was extradited to the United States in 2017 to stand trial, and was convicted and sentenced to life in prison two years later. A dual US-Mexico citizen and the mother of twins by Guzman, Coronel appeared in court nearly every day of his three-month trial in New York. Guzman was locked up in the highest-security prison in the United States, the ADX federal prison in Florence, Colorado.

Source: Manila Times February 23, 2021 04:41 UTC