Wife of ‘El Chapo’ arrested
Washington: The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin ‘‘El Chapo’’ Guzman has been arrested at a US airport on international drug trafficking charges.
Emma Coronel Aispuro (31), a regular attendee at her husband’s trial two years ago, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia yesterday and is expected to appear in a federal court in Washington today.
Coronel’s arrest came two years after a trial in Brooklyn at which Guzman, now 63, was convicted of trafficking tonnes of drugs into the United States as Sinaloa’s leader. Prosecutors at the trial said Guzman amassed power through murders and wars with rival cartels.