El Chapo's beauty queen wife in her mugshot after being arrested for drug trafficking and plotting to help him escape from Mexican prisons
Emma Coronel, 31, was detained at Dulles Airport in Washington DC
Her husband 'Chapo' Guzman, 63, is currently serving life in prison in Colorado
The head of the Sinaloa Cartel, he was convicted in February 2019 of trafficking
Coronel, a former beauty queen, is the mother of their twin daughters
She is a US citizen, having been born in California before returning to Mexico
Coronel is accused of trafficking from 2014 until Guzman's extradition in 2017
She is also accused of supporting plans to break him out of jail in Mexico
'Cooperating Witness 1' said he received $1m in a scheme to free Chapo in 2016
The witness further said the head of Mexico's prisons received a $2m bribe
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