WASHINGTON, Feb 23: Mexican drug cartel chief El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was arrested in the US on drug charges on Monday. She was accused of running her husband Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's drug trafficking cartel while he was behind bars and detained at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, outside Washington, DC.

The former beauty queen was charged in a one-count complaint with conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, cannabis and methamphetamines for unlawful importation into the US. She would be produced before a federal court in Washington by video on Tuesday afternoon. She is a dual US-Mexico citizen.

Guzman, 63, was convicted of trafficking tonnes of drugs into the US as the Sinaloa leader and sentenced in July 2019 to life in prison. He is languishing in ADX Florence in Colorado, the US’s most secure prison.