Emma 31-year-old mother Coronel Isforo was arrested at the airport and charged with involvement in an international smuggling network • According to the prosecution, she also helped her husband escape from prison in the past
The wife of the Mexican drug baron
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A fine of more than $ 12 billion, life imprisonment and an additional 30 years in prison were imposed just about two years ago on 63-year-old Joaquin Guzman.
The nickname "El Chapo" has for years been considered the largest drug dealer in the world.
He was convicted, among other things, of murdering competitors in the drug industry and was also charged with pedophilia.
Now the United States' fight against the Mexican criminal organization is coming to his wife as well.
Yesterday (Monday), Emma Coronel Isforo was arrested in the United States on suspicion of involvement in an international drug smuggling network.
The U.S. State Department has announced that its 31-year-old mother, who has been regularly present at Guzman's trial in recent years, has been arrested at Doules Airport in northern Virginia.
She is expected to appear in federal court in Washington today.
Coronel was charged yesterday with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, cocaine, heroin and Crystal Meth.
All this with the aim of smuggling the drugs to the United States.
The prosecution also claimed she conspired to assist her husband in escaping from prison in Mexico in 2015.
In recent months the war between the United States and Mexico on drug smuggling intensified when the administration arrested Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cainfuagos on charges of drug offenses.
But the administration's justice department dropped out of the case a month later and released it to Mexico.
According to the suspicions then attributed to the 73-year-old Sinfoagos, who is considered a highly esteemed politician and even called the "godfather" due to his work and the results he achieved in his war on cartels, he collaborated with the drug cartel "Beltran Leiva" while organizing operations against rival gangs, drug smuggling, bribery And pre-reported to the organization members possible investigations against them in Mexico and the United States.