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WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY - The wife of Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was arrested and charged in the United States on Monday with helping her husband continue to run his drug trafficking cartel while he was behind bars.
El Chapo Escape New York 2018 DateNEW YORK (WABC) - The world's most notorious drug lord's request to hug his wife was denied, records show. Defense attorneys asked the United States District Court that Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. A Brooklyn federal judge set an April 2018 trial date for Mexican drug lord Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman. Federal prosecutors told Judge Brian Cogan on Friday that they need up to three months to pin. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Monday and is expected to appear in federal court.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, a regular attendee at her husband's high-profile US trial two years ago where he was convicted of trafficking tons of drugs into the United States, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.
Her arrest is the highest profile US capture of a Mexican on drug charges since former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos was detained in October, and experts said it indicated a deterioration in bilateral security relations.
Coronel was charged by the US Department of Justice with conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines for unlawful importation into the United States. She is expected to appear in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday.
El Chapo Escape VideoAn affidavit attached to the charges also details Coronel's alleged involvement in her husband's escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and a second attempted prison break in 2016 before the 63-year-old was extradited to the United States.
A lawyer for Coronel could not immediately be identified, and lawyers in Mexico linked to the Guzman family did not respond to a request for comment.
A Mexican official familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified, said Coronel's arrest appeared to be solely a US initiative and that Coronel was not wanted in Mexico.
'[It's] a sign of what's likely ahead,' former Mexican ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan said, describing it as an example of US. agencies acting with little coordination with Mexican counterparts.
Joint efforts to fight drug trafficking were strained by Cienfuegos' arrest, with Mexico's government moving to restrict US agents' activities in Mexico in retaliation for what it called a breach of trust.
The Justice Department unexpectedly dropped the Cienfuegos case the following month and let him return to Mexico, a move Mexico welcomed as restoring trust between the two countries. Two months later, Mexico dropped its own case against Cienfuegos.
The investigation into Coronel was handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), rather than the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The charges relate to alleged trafficking activity between 2014-2107 prior to the high-profile Brooklyn trial where Guzman was convicted on drug trafficking offenses.
The indictment documents said Coronel relayed messages on behalf of Guzman to facilitate drug trafficking after his arrest in 2014.
Prosecutors said Coronel also conspired to aid her husband in his July 2015 escape from the Altiplano prison in Mexico through a mile-long tunnel from his cell. An unnamed cooperating witness was paid $1 million to help facilitate a failed second escape a year later, according to the affidavit.
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Coronel, who married Guzman as an 18-year-old beauty queen in 2017, is a dual US-Mexico citizen who lives in Mexico. It was unclear why she was in the Washington area at the time of her arrest.
Prosecutors at Guzman's trial two years ago said he amassed power through murders and wars with rival cartels. Guzman was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years, which the sentencing judge said reflected Guzman's 'overwhelmingly evil' actions. Guzman was sent to ADX Florence in Colorado, the nation's most secure 'Supermax' prison.
Tomas Guevara, an investigator in security issues at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, said Coronel's arrest might be part of a 'pressure strategy' to prompt cooperation from Guzman.
By kmclaughlin@businessinsider.com (Kelly McLaughlin,Erin Snodgrass)

 of INSIDER | The wife of the notorious drug lord El Chapo is a former beauty queen who unwaveringly supports her husbandThe wife of drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was arrested Monday on drug trafficking charges.
The Justice Department said Emma Coronel Aispuro helped plot her husband's prison escape in 2015.
The former beauty queen has stood by her husband since she married him on her 18th birthday.
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The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was arrested Monday, February 22, at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking charges, according to the US Department of Justice.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, is accused of helping plot her husband's escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and was reportedly 'engaged in planning yet another prison escape' before her husband was extradited to the US in 2017, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Coronel Aispuro, who is a dual citizen of the US and Mexico, is expected to appear in federal court on Tuesday.
The federal trial against the infamous Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman ended in 2019 when he was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years - and the kingpin's former beauty queen wife was by his side through it all.

 of INSIDER | The wife of the notorious drug lord El Chapo is a former beauty queen who unwaveringly supports her husbandThe wife of drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was arrested Monday on drug trafficking charges.
The Justice Department said Emma Coronel Aispuro helped plot her husband's prison escape in 2015.
The former beauty queen has stood by her husband since she married him on her 18th birthday.
Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.
The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was arrested Monday, February 22, at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking charges, according to the US Department of Justice.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, is accused of helping plot her husband's escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and was reportedly 'engaged in planning yet another prison escape' before her husband was extradited to the US in 2017, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Coronel Aispuro, who is a dual citizen of the US and Mexico, is expected to appear in federal court on Tuesday.
The federal trial against the infamous Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman ended in 2019 when he was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years - and the kingpin's former beauty queen wife was by his side through it all.
Guzman pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges connected to claims that he built a multi-billion-dollar fortune by smuggling cocaine and other drugs across the Mexico-US border.
After years on the run, Guzman was extradited to the United States in 2017 and was held in solitary confinement in a high-security prison as he awaited trial, The Associated Press reported. He is now serving his life sentence.
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