Wife of Mexican drug kingpin 'El Chapo' held in jail on U.S. charges of helping him run cartel

FILE PHOTO: Emma Coronel Aispuro, esposa de Joaquín Guzmán, "El Chapo", a la salida de una corte en Brooklyn, Nueva York, EEUU, 4 febrero 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to be detained on charges she conspired with her husband to run a multibillion dollar drug enterprise while he was behind bars.

The arrest of Coronel, 31, at Dulles International Airport near Washington on Monday was the highest-profile U.S. capture of a Mexican on drug charges since former Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos was detained in October.