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Drug lord El Chapo’s wife arrested by US authorities: See details

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The former teenager beauty queen and wife of infamous drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been arrested by the US authorities on Monday at an airport outside of Washington.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31-year-old, faces the charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana into the US, the Justice Department said.

Arrested at Dulles International Airport, Coronel also faces allegations of planning two prison escapes from Mexico jail for El Chapo — of which one was successful in 2015.

El Chapo was the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel — one of the most notorious Mexican drug trafficking gang. He ran an operation through which he delivered hundreds of tons of narcotics into the US through the illegal border crossing. He has also been accused of being the mastermind behind several assassination plans of people who crossed him during his time as the leader of the gang.

He was, later in 2017, extradited to the US where he stood trial and was sentenced to life in prison two years later.

His wife has been accused of taking part and assisting in the cartel activities and has been the mastermind of two prison break plans.

Coronel, who holds dual citizenship of US and Mexico, appeared in court nearly every day during the three-month-long trial of her husband in New York, even though she had been barred from all contact from him for nearly two years of his pre-trial detention.

She, too, was unofficially accused of being involved in the cartel activities but was not held under suspicion ever.

“I can only say that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I am not perfect, but I consider myself a good human being who has never hurt anyone intentionally,” she had said at the end of the trial.

As per her US lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, Coronel will be pleading ‘not guilty’, as reported by news agency AFP.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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