02/23/2021 2:36 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 02/23/2021 2:40 PM
In the last hours, judicial authorities in the United States released the first photo of Emma Coronel, wife of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, detained in Alexandria, Virginia.
There you see the 31-year-old woman in
a recluse suit and without makeup
, far from the luxurious brand clothing that she used to show off on social networks.
He also wears a military green T-shirt.
She is expected to appear this Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Washington, DC She was arrested on Monday in the state of Virginia and
faces drug trafficking charges
, the US Department of Justice reported.
Colonel, 31, detained in Virginia.
Photo: AP
Coronel, 31,
who is a Mexican and an American citizen, was detained at Dulles International Airport.
She was transferred Monday night to the Alexandria, Virginia Detention Center and is expected to appear Tuesday by video conference for an initial hearing before a District of Columbia judge.
His attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, declined to comment Monday night.
Coronel is not only accused of participating in a criminal association to traffic cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and marijuana, but the
United States
also
accuses her of having joined others to help Guzmán escape from the Altiplano prison
, in Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico, in July 2015, it is indicated in the text.
Colonel, in a recluse outfit.
Photo: AP
After Guzmán was re-arrested in Mexico in January 2016, Coronel reportedly again planned, along with others, another escape attempt for her husband.
Guzmán, however, was extradited to the United States in January 2017.
Coronel appeared every day at her husband's drug trafficking trial - held in New York's eastern district court - in late 2018 and the first two months of 2019, and was caught on camera every time she entered or left the building of the court, in Brooklyn.
Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison due to his role as leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
According to an affidavit issued by Eric McGuire, an FBI agent, and released by the Department of Justice, from 2012 to 2014 Coronel passed messages from Guzmán to other members of the cartel to continue drug trafficking activities while he evaded Mexican authorities. .
Emma Coronel, during the trial of El Chapo Guzmán.
Photo: EFE
Following the arrest of "El Chapo" in February 2014, Coronel continued to pass on the messages her husband gave her when she visited him in prison, McGuire wrote.