U.S. ARRESTS WIFE OF MEXICO DRUG CARTEL CHIEF

The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the imprisoned former leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on Monday over alleged involvement in international drug trafficking, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, a regular attendee at her husband’s trial two years ago, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, and is expected to appear Tuesday in a federal court. Her arrest came two years after a celebrated trial in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Guzman, now 63, was convicted of trafficking tons of drugs into the U.S. as Sinaloa’s leader. Prosecutors said he amassed power through murders and wars with rival cartels. He was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison plus 30 years. Coronel was charged in a one-count complaint with conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines for unlawful importation into the U.S. Prosecutors said Coronel also conspired to aid her husband in his 2015 escape from the Altiplano prison in Mexico, when he dug a mile-long tunnel from his cell.