In mid-2015, the infamous cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman managed to escape from a prison in Mexico via a rail-driven motorcycle that ran along a nearly two-kilometer-long tunnel dug under his cell.
It was the second time Guzman had escaped from prison.
Before he was arrested in 2014, he had been wanted for 13 years after he escaped from another high-security prison in 2001 by hiding in a laundry basket.
"El Chapo" was the top leader of the Sinalo cartel and is said to have earned around SEK 136 billion on drug smuggling.
In 2019, he was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years by a court in the United States.
Suspected of participating in the escape
His wife Emma Coronel Aispurom has now been arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, international media reports.
According to a statement from the US Department of Justice, 31-year-old Coronel Aispurom is suspected of having been involved in an operation where the purpose was to smuggle a ton of marijuana, five kilos of cocaine and five hundred grams of methamphetamine into the United States.
She is also suspected of having been involved in her husband's escape from prison in 2015 and a planned escape that would have taken place prior to his extradition to the United States in 2016.
Coronel Aispurom is expected to make his first appearance in court on Tuesday.
It is unclear how she will respond to the allegations.