El Chapo Escape New York 2018
Emma Coronel, center, the wife of Joaquin Guzman, leaves Brooklyn Federal Court after opening arguments in the trial of the Mexican drug lord known as 'El Chapo,' Nov. 13, 2018, in New York. US arrests wife of Mexico cartel chief El Chapo on drug charges. Trial of Guzman in New York City, New York, U.S., November 13, 2018. In her husband's escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. El Chapo Trial Becomes New York's Latest Tourist Attraction There was a time, after a spectacular prison escape, when Joaquin Guzman was the most wanted man in the world.
of INSIDERThe 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.
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.