WASHINGTON—A federal judge has ordered the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to remain temporarily jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotting his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, appeared by video conference for an initial court appearance before a federal magistrate judge in the District of Columbia. The judge’s order came after Coronel’s attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, said he would consent to her temporary detention after her arrest at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
