Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s wife Emma Coronel arrested on drug trafficking charges 

The wife of Joaquin ‘El Chapo‘ Guzman has been arrested at Washington DC‘s Dulles Airport and charged with drug trafficking. 

Emma Coronel, a 31-year-old former beauty queen with both U.S. and Mexican citizenship, was detained on Monday.

She will appear in court on Tuesday, charged with participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the U.S. 

She is also accused of helping her husband in his infamous July 11, 2015 escape through a tunnel dug beneath Altiplano prison, in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico. 

Mike Vigil, a former DEA agent who worked undercover in Mexico, told DailyMail.com that Coronel was ‘a narco princess’ deeply enmeshed in the world of trafficking.

‘She was not a distributor, or a money launderer, or involved in logistics,’ he said. 

‘But she did things he ordered he to, like passing messages.

‘So did she participate: yes.

‘But these charges are things that she did in the past. It’s not like she’s branching out on her own.’  

Emma Coronel, the 31-year-old wife of ‘Chapo’ Guzman, was arrested on Monday

After Guzman was re-arrested in Mexico in January 2016, she is alleged to have engaged in planning yet another prison escape, before he was eventually extradited to the U.S. in January 2017.

Guzman’s lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, told DailyMail.com he was not representing Coronel: it was unclear who her attorney was.