LA Times: ‘Chapo’ Guzman’s Wife Gives Birth In L.A. County

The spaces for “Name of Father” are blank. But the L.A. County birth certificates list the mother, who happens to be the young wife of a highly sought-after drug lord, Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman.

Emma Coronel traveled to Southern California in mid-July and gave birth Aug. 15 to twin girls at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, according to birth records and a senior U.S. law enforcement official.

Turns out Coronel, a 22-year-old former beauty queen, holds U.S. citizenship, which entitles her to travel freely to the United States. By being born in California, and to a mother who is an American citizen, her little girls also have U.S. citizenship.

Read the full story:Wife of fugitive Mexican drug lord gives birth in L.A. County