The wife of Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, the infamous drug lord known as “El Chapo,” pleaded guilty Thursday morning in Washington to helping his multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise smuggle at least 100 tons of marijuana, cocaine and heroin into the United States.

As part of Emma Coronel Aispuro’s plea, she admitted aiding her husband’s infamous escape from prison in 2015 by facilitating the purchase of property near the facility that would be used to dig a tunnel.

She then arranged for a GPS watch disguised as a food item to be delivered to Guzmán by a prison guard, which helped tunnelers pinpoint his cell and later build an entrance directly under his shower, according to plea papers.

prosecutors and admitted to three federal counts: conspiracy to commit money laundering; conspiracy to aid and abet the distribution of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines for importation into the United States with Guzmán’s Sinaloa Cartel; and engaging in transactions that had the effect of evading sanctions on her husband.

In signed plea papers, Coronel acknowledged that the government could show she communicated Guzmán’s orders for his successful 2015 tunnel prison escape to three of Guzmán’s sons and a fourth alleged co-conspirator.

She acknowledged evidence showing that at her husband’s direction, she received five bulk cash deliveries totaling $1 million in heroin proceeds owed to Guzmán from a man she knew as “Cleto,” according to plea papers.

Coronel was aware of her husband’s cartel role from the outset of her marriage and benefited from direct monetary support, residences and rent-producing commercial and residential properties bought with drug proceeds, she acknowledged.

She also agreed the government could show that her husband used her to deliver messages to cartel associates, helping him in this manner to maintain control of the organization and continue to smuggle drugs into the United States while he was imprisoned.

In Mexico, Coronel projected the image of an untouchable figure, despite her links to the world’s most notorious drug trafficker.

She is the daughter of Inés Coronel Barreras, a Sinaloa cartel lieutenant later sentenced to prison for trafficking drugs and firearms.

Charging papers allege that beginning in about 2007 — when she turned 18 and married Guzmán — Coronel conspired with others to transport illegal narcotics, mostly marijuana, into the United States in amounts that foreseeably exceeded quantities set by federal statute as punishable by at least 10 years and up to life in prison for first offenders.