“According to Cooperating Witness 1, approximately one month after Guzman’s Januarrest and detention, he/she met with Coronel. to face charges, prompting El Chapo to ask his wife again to plan another escape.
Following his arrest, federal authorities asked for his extradition to the U.S. 8, 2016, when he was arrested by Mexican authorities. The plan was successful, prosecutors state, and Guzman remained a fugitive until Jan. Coronel allegedly enlisted the help of an individual, who later began to cooperate with the government, and Guzman’s sons to execute the escape plan and construct the tunnel under the shower of El Chapo’s cell. Prosecutors also allege Coronel helped facilitate her husband’s infamous escape from Altiplano through an underground tunnel. Some of those messages, the complaint states, coordinated the sale and transportation logistics of the cartel’s ongoing drug trafficking schemes, thereby making Coronel the “go-between and messenger” between her husband and the rest of the cartel. After El Chapo’s arrest in February 2014, she continued to deliver messages she received from Guzman during her prison visits-which were not monitored by Mexican authorities. She was also aware that El Chapo’s sons were high-ranking members of the cartel and that her father, Ines Coronel, coordinated narcotics transports for the family.įrom 2012 to 2014, Coronel relayed messages on behalf of Guzman while he attempted to avoid capture by Mexican authorities, prosecutors state. over 30 years and that Guzman ordered the murders of dozens of people to protect himself and his smuggling empire.Ĭoronel knew “Guzman was a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and that Guzman coordinated the distribution of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines, and marijuana for the purpose of unlawfully smuggling those narcotics into the United States for distribution,” prosecutors said. Prosecutors have previously alleged the Mexican cartel was responsible for smuggling more than 100 tons of cocaine into the U.S. Prosecutors now allege Coronel did more than admire her spouse-but also worked alongside him for the Sinaloa cartel. “But rather I admire him as the human being that I met, and the one that I married.” “I don’t know my husband as the person they are trying to show him as,” Coronel said in 2019. According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, Coronel’s family had a “historical friendship with Guzman.”
In an interview with The New York Times, Coronel, a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen, revealed she admired her husband, whom she married on her 18th birthday and shares two daughters with. Penitentiary, or ADX, in Florence, Colorado. He is serving his sentence at Administrative Maximum U.S.
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About six months later, after Guzman was re-arrested, Coronel allegedly tried to plan another prison escape before her husband’s January 2017 extradition to the U.S.Įl Chapo was convicted in 2019 for his role as a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and ultimately sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison. Prosecutors allege Coronel conspired to assist her husband in his July 11, 2015, escape from Altiplano prison. The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious Mexican kingpin who was sentenced to life in prison in 2019, has been arrested for her alleged role in the international drug trafficking scheme.Įmma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, was arrested on Monday at Dulles International Airport in Virginia and faces a slew of charges for “participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the U.S.,” authorities said.
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