Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at federal court in New York, 2019. Photo / APThe wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested on Monday (US time) at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking charges, the US Justice Department said. She is charged in a single-count criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana in the US. The planning for the escape was extensive, prosecutors say, with his wife playing a key role. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture in Mazatlan, Mexico in 2014.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 22, 2021 23:37 UTC