Chivis Martínez for Borderland Beat
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The leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman , was not alone in the condo when he was arrested by special forces of the Navy, in Mazatlán, this past Saturday, he was with his wife Emma Coronel Aispuro.
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Officials of the Office of Security and Justice confirmed that the navy found the wife of the capo at his side, the woman was retained shortly, but the absence of a warrant or investigation pending against her, she was released, reports Milenio.
Guzman Loera, however, now held in the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 "Altiplano" maximum security prison, where he faces various criminal charges, handed down on Monday, but is expected to be extradited to the U.S..
"Altiplano" No. 1 is the prison he was incarcerated in after his 1993 arrest, but was transferred in 1995 to Puente Grande prison in Jalisco. It was from the Jalisco prison that he managed his escape in 2001.
There has never been an escape from Altiplano No.1
Emma Coronel is the niece of the late capo Ignacio Nacho Coronel. In 2013 the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department of the United States placed her father, Ines Coronel Barrera, father in law of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, on the kingpin list.
Coronel Barreras(in foto at right)as arrested in Sonora on May 1, 2013. He was taken without a shot, but displayed his displeasure by a bombardment of cursing that continued for what was described as incessant. While writing his body and jerking his head, he continued the "Chi ... ma ...” barrage.
August 2011, Emma, a U.S. citizen, gave birth to twin girls in the Antelope Valley of Los Angeles.
Emma is the third wife of El Chapo Guzman and niece of Nacho Coronel Villarreal, who was killed by the military in Zapopan, Jalisco, in July 2010.
As for the twin daughters, depending on which report one accepts, either they were at the condo at the time of arrest, sleeping, or one was at the condo, or neither at the condo.
In the video showing footage of the condo interior, one can clearly see at least one portable crib in the second bedroom.
