The wife of the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, known as EL Chapo, was arrested at the international airport in Washington on suspicion of being involved in a drug distribution network, US authorities announced last night.
Emma Coronel Aispuro (31), who has US and Mexican citizenship, is scheduled to appear before a federal judge today.
She is accused of participating in the distribution of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana.
Her husband, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel and once considered the most powerful drug dealer in the world, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the US in July 2019 and is serving his sentence in a prison in the US state of Colorado.
According to US officials, the Sinaloa cartel was the largest supplier of drugs to the US.
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