The FBI agent made it clear that also, based on the testimonies of Cooperating Witness One, Emma Coronel was also directly involved in the planning of Guzmán’s escape from the Altiplano prison via a tunnel in 2015.
“Coronel knew that the proceeds of the drugs that she handled during her marriage with Guzmán were derived from these shipments. In addition, from 2012 to 2014, Coronel transmitted messages on behalf of Guzmán to promote drug trafficking activities,” he said.
“According to Cooperating Witness One, Coronel (Aispuro) met with him and asked for help in Guzmán’s escape from the Altiplano prison. Collaborating Witness One agreed to help. Later, Coronel (Aispuro) met with Cooperating Witness One, Iván, Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquín and communicated Guzmán’s instructions on the escape plan,” said McGuire.
“I ask you to always have an agreement between you and my four children. Hire accountants throughout the state, pay the people and widows there and what is left each month, half is for you and half is for the four of them. You know who has the papers for that place. Send them to the twins, please. The mother of the twins will tell you and my children something. Please be alert, compadre. She will explain, the twins will bring a message to you and everyone, so that you can see it personally,” reads another fragment of a letter that reveals the complicity of Emma (mother of Joaquín Guzmán’s youngest daughters).
Colonel Aispuro, a US-Mexican citizen born in California in 1989, was charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute “one kilo or more of heroin, five kilograms or more of cocaine, one thousand kilograms or more of marijuana, and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine for illegal importation into the United States”.
The 31-year-old woman will be brought before a judge on Tuesday. His lawyer confirmed that the accusations against him will be read to him this Tuesday. It was also reported that she will be represented by the lawyers who defended her husband in what was known as the “trial of the century”, in 2019, Jeffrey Lichtman and Mariel Colón Miró.