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El Chapo Sends “SOS” To Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: STR / Getty It looks like notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is plotting his next great escape from a maximum-security prison. But instead of having his henchmen break him out, El Chapo is appealing to the President of Mexico to help him regain his freedom. Raw Story is reporting that the former head of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been suffering “psychological torment” in the U.S. prison he’s currently being held at according to his Mexico-based lawyer, Jose Refugio Rodriguez. And “In the six years that Joaquin has been in the United States, he has not seen the sun.” Related Stories Naturally we doubt that anyone will be losing any sleep over the fact that El Chapo isn’t getting enough time to shine in the sun, but some feel the stateme...

El Chapo’s Son Arrested By Mexican Authorities, Violence Followed Soon After

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty On Thursday (Jan. 5), violence erupted in the streets of Mexico after local authorities arrested the son of notorious drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera aka El Chapo. The New York Times is reporting that Ovidio Guzmán López was taken into custody after executing an operation in Culiacán. He was then taken to a special prosecutors office in Mexico City, the Mexican secretary of defense stated in a news conference yesterday (Jan. 5). The announcement comes two years after he was originally arrested but released after his cartel soldiers went to war with authorities and actually got that dub over them. “This arrest represents a resounding blow to the leadership of the Pacific cartel,” the secretary of defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval...

El Chapo’s Wife Sentenced To Three Years For Drug Trafficking

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Drew Angerer / Getty Six months after the trial for El Chapo’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, began, the drug lord’s ride of die has learned her fate and it’s not as bad as one might’ve guessed it would be. According to TMZ, Aispuro was sentenced to three years in prison for her role in his infamous drug operation including drug trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana. Originally many speculated she’d get a decade in prison for pleading guilty to the charges after getting busted Dulles International Airport in Virginia earlier this year, but the judge went easy on her with the light sentence. Related Stories Luckily for her she had enough in the bank to get herself some respectable representation in cour...

El Chapo’s Wife Faces Four Years And 1.5 Million In Fines For Drug Operation

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty The federal government have a 98% conviction rate for good reason. One of their newest takedowns includes the wife of El Chapo. As spotted on Raw Story, Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of the infamous Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is in the sights of the Feds. According to federal prosecutors, Aispuro assisted her husband in running a multi-million drug operation based out of Mexico. While Guzman was finally apprehended back in 2016 his partner wasn’t picked up until February 22, 2021 when she arrived at Dulles International Airport. She was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana in the United States. Related Stories Emma has since plead guilty to all charges. The United States Justice D...

El Chapo’s Wife Pleads Guilty To 3 Major Charges, Won’t Snitch On Hubby

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty A few months after authorities put cuffs on El Chapo’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, for drug trafficking and money laundering, TMZ is reporting the former beauty queen has bitten the cartel bullet and pleaded guilty to three big-time charges. According to the report the wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman appeared in federal district court this past Thursday (June 10) and pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. Aispuro was busted back in February at the Dulles International Airport and ultimately charged with conspiracy to distribute 5 kilos or more of cocaine, 1 kilo of heroin, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and 1,000 kilos or more of marijuana for...

“El Chapo” Guzman’s Wife Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges In U.S.

Source: New York Daily News / Getty Infamous Mexican drug overlord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is currently serving a life sentence for moving weight like whales up and down the Americas, and now it seems like his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, is going to be sharing the same fate. The Associated Press is reporting that the 31-year-old Aispuro (El Chapo is 63-years-old by the way) was arrested yesterday (February 22) at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on charges that she helped him run his drug empire along with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. The U.S. Justice Department is also accusing the former beauty queen of helping El Chapo escape a Mexican prison in 2015 and plotting to help him escape a second time before he was extradited to the U.S. ...

Eight inmates killed in Mexico prison fight

Eight inmates died after a brawl broke out in the high-security Mexican prison from which infamous drug trafficker “El Chapo” made his first escape, officials said Friday. The fight began after the end of a baseball match between detainees at the Puente Grande jail near Guadalajara in the western state of Jalisco. A small number of prisoners suddenly attacked another group, prison director Jose Antonio Perez said. The cause of the brawl was not known, he added. Several wounded inmates were taken to different hospitals with one individual dying during the transfer, authorities said. Five detainees suspected of participating in the deadly scuffle will be questioned by the prosecutor’s office. The top security prison was also where Joaquin Guzman, known as “El Chapo”, in 2001 made the first o...