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• FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, leaves a Brooklyn federal court in New York after attending the trial of her husband Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman.
• Police standby outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse as the “El Chapo” Guzman trial takes place on January 7, 2019 in New York. Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images Sales.

The wife of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was held without bail Tuesday as Washington, D.C., feds detailed how she played a crucial role in her husband’s notorious escape from a Mexican prison.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, Guzmán’s wife and mother to his 10-year-old daughters, appeared virtually inside a Washington, D.C., courtroom where federal prosecutors hit her with a litany of drug charges for her ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.

Coronel, who holds dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship, was arrested in Virginia at Dulles International Airport late Monday and charged with conspiring to smuggle cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana into the U.S.

The charges are the first against Coronel, whose father, Inés Coronel Barreras, was a high-ranking leader in the cartel. Her uncle, Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, was once in business with her infamous drug lord husband.

At her arraignment, which was held via telephone conference, Coronel said little as a Spanish translator communicated the proceedings.

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, leaves federal court in New York. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia.

“This defendant worked closely with the command and control structure of the Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel — most notably, with her husband, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the leader of the cartel, prior to his extradition and subsequent conviction in the United States,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Nardozzi.

On top of conspiring to smuggle and disseminate drugs in the U.S., Nardozzi cited Coronel’s critical involvement in her husband’s escapades.

Asking the judge to detain Coronel as her case plays out, Nardozzi cited her participation in her husband’s July 11, 2015, escape from Altiplano prison and her efforts to help Guzmán escape from custody a second time before his January 2017 extradition to Brooklyn.

“Additionally, your honor, the defendant has access to criminal associates who are members of the Sinaloa Cartel as well as financial means to generate a serious risk of flight,” Nardozzi said.

“Further, she has no ties to the Washington, D.C., area.”

Coronel’s attorneys, Jeffrey Lichtman and Mariel Colon Miro, also represented her husband at his 2018 trial. They consented to a temporary order or detention.

Before the hearing ended, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather asked Coronel if there was anything she was unclear about.

“No, I understood everything very well. Thank you,” Coronel replied, speaking in Spanish.

Coronel wed Guzmán, who is 32 years her senior, when she was just 18. She sat through more than 200 hours of testimony at his blockbuster drug trafficking trial — the largest of its kind held in an American courtroom — and was implicated by several turncoat witnesses who took the stand against him.

Dámaso López Nuñez described to jurors in detail how Coronel played a crucial role in his underground escape from the maximum-security prison in 2015, as she sat meters away in the courtroom gallery.

To carry out the astounding jailbreak, Guzmán gave his wife detailed instructions over months each time she visited him in prison — directives Coronel communicated to the drug lord’s adult sons and his lieutenants, López said.

“Emma gave us the message,” he testified in January 2019.

Guzmán would break out via a tunnel connected to his prison cell shower. His sons oversaw the purchase of property outside the prison and hired tunnel architects who were able to use a GPS watch on Guzmán’s wrist to locate his cell and dig the underground passageway to freedom.

Coronel’s brother was the one who piloted the infamous cartel boss 1 1/2 miles to freedom through the tunnel, López testified.

If convicted, Coronel faces a possible life sentence and up to $10 million in fines.

The Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo — “Shorty' — is said to have first met the elegant teenage daughter of one of his lieutenants at a small-town dance. Smitten, he later hosted a lavish bash to support her bid to become a beauty contest queen.

She was just 18 — and more than three decades his junior — when they married in 2007 in the town of La Angostura, deep in the Sierra Madre and in the heart of the so-called Golden Triangle of heroin production in Mexico.

Years later, decked out in designer garb and spiked heels, she was a paparazzi-pleasing daily presence as Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman faced his legal reckoning in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn as the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

On Monday, U.S. authorities arrested Emma Coronel Aispuro at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, alleging that she was more than the loyal and fashion-conscious wife of the world’s most notorious narco.

Mirroring some of the allegations that felled her husband, Coronel — a citizen of both the U.S. and Mexico — faces charges of participating in a broad conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana into the United States.

After Guzman was imprisoned in Mexico, an FBI affidavit states, his wife acted as a 'go-between and messenger,' relaying his orders to his lieutenants and his four sons, all of whom are allegedly high-ranking cartel members.

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U.S. authorities allege she assisted in his sensational 2015 prison escape, when Guzmán dropped into a hole scooped out beneath the shower in his Mexican cell and hopped onto a rail-mounted motorcycle, which whisked him to freedom through a mile-long tunnel.

Coronel allegedly met with Guzmán’s son to discuss the plan, which had involved purchasing land and a warehouse near the prison, along with firearms and an armored truck, according to an FBI affidavit.

Guzmán was captured six months later in the Pacific Coast city of Los Mochis, Mexico.

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The FBI said his wife later helped organize a second escape scheme for which a Guzmán confederate received about $1 million — and told a “cooperating witness” that a senior prison official had been paid $2 million to help. The prison chief was not identified.

But that plan never came to fruition. Guzmán was extradited to the United States in January 2017.

A U.S. District judge in New York sentenced Guzmán to life in prison in July 2019 after a jury found him guilty of drug-trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder.

Prosecutors also sought an order demanding Guzman turn over more than $12.6 billion in assets — their approximation of his drug earnings over the decades. His lawyers called the request preposterous and said he didn't have anything close to that.

With her husband n U.S. custody, Coronel has been a frequent poster on Instagram and occasional visitor to the United States.

In September 2018, as Guzmán and his lawyers prepared for trial in New York, photos showed up on Instagram detailing a birthday party that Coronel threw for the couple’s twin daughters, who were born in 2011 at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster.

The decadent bash featured carnival rides, hundreds of pink balloons and a set featuring gold chandeliers and a rose-hued throne.

Coronel wore 4-inch heels and posed in front of a fake pink mansion and a long table covered with flowers, desserts and a towering birthday cake.

The next year, as Guzmán, 64, awaited sentencing, Coronel said on Instagram that she was launching a fashion line inspired by her husband’s style. His image — square jaw, beady eyes, black mustache — is emblazoned on ball caps, T-shirts and posters in Mexico, especially in his home state of Sinaloa, where many regard him as a hero and Robin Hood figure who helped the poor.

In court, Coronel was equal parts spectacle and enigma. She spent almost every day of her husband's trial in the second row of the gallery, silent but impossible to miss.

By opening statements, the pair had not had any direct contact in two years. Still, her petition to be allowed to hug him once before the trial began was denied.

Guzmán would search for her from the moment he was led into the courtroom each day. The couple often waved and flirted, sometimes to the consternation of U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan.

When she brought their twins to court, Guzmán couldn’t tear his eyes from them. Coronel often fussed to her husband's lawyers about his ties, his expression, his health.

Although she rarely spoke to the press, she never shied from the cameras outside of court. Her chic outfits — designer jeans, sky-high stilettos, military blazers and velvet body suits — got plenty of attention, and she was fastidious about her makeup. But suspicion hung over her.

Her uncle, Ignacio Coronel — the so-called King of Crystal for his part in the smuggling of methamphetamines to the United States — was killed in a 2010 shootout with the Mexican military. He was said to be number three in the Sinaloa cartel hierarchy. Authorities allege that Coronel’s father, who is currently imprisoned in Mexico, “coordinated narcotics transports” for the Sinaloa cartel.

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During the trial, many speculated she was more involved in her husband’s business dealings than she let on. She was obliged to pass through the metal detector twice before a sensitive witness was brought in to testify, out of concern she might smuggle in a cellphone to take his picture.

As the weeks dragged on, it was impossible for Coronel to conceal her boredom. She fidgeted in her seat and played with her long hair, and was scolded for using her lawyer’s phone in the courtroom.

Her arrest reverberated across social media, especially in Mexico, where many suggested tongue-in-cheek that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would help get her returned to Mexico — as he did in the case of a former Mexican defense chief arrested in Los Angeles last year for alleged drug trafficking.

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“Don’t worry Emma,” wrote ex-President Vicente Fox on Twitter. “The president will come to the rescue!!”

McDonnell reported from Mexico City and Sharp from Los Angeles. Times staff writers Kate Linthicum in Mexico City, Tracy Wilkinson in Washington and special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez in Mexico City also contributed to this report.

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.