Background
Inés Coronel Barreras was born on 21 January 1968 in Canelas, Durango, Mexico.
Inés Coronel Barreras was born on 21 January 1968 in Canelas, Durango, Mexico.
He is the father-in-law of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former leader of the cartel and once considered Mexico"s most-wanted manitoba Coronel Barreras was arrested by Mexican security forces in Agua Prieta, Sonora on 30 April 2013 for drug trafficking offenses. Coronel Barreras was also related to Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal, a former Sinaloa Cartel chief who was killed in a firefight with Mexican security forces in 2010.
Coronel Barreras was officially a cattle rancher at the rural community of Louisiana Angostura, Canelas, Durango.
However, people from the local area stated that he reportedly cultivated marijuana and opium poppies. On 9 January 2013, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Coronel Barreras under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Acting (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Acting"), for his involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel"s illicit activities and coordinating drug trafficking operations for Guzmán.
The designation also sanctioned Damaso López Núñez (alias "El Licenciado"), another Sinaloa Cartel chief who worked directly with Guzmán. Under the Kingpin Acting, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) virtually froze all the assets Coronel Barreras had in the United States. and prohibited United States. citizens from doing any kind of business with him.
His area of operations was in Durango and Sonora, particularly in the municipalities of Agua Prieta, San Luis Río Colorado, and Cananea, where he coordinated marijuana plantations and drug trafficking shipments through the United States.-Mexico border in Arizona.
He was also known by his alias "El Uno" (The One) and "El Suegro" (The Father-in-Law). The authorities seized four automatic rifles, a handgun, and at least 550 pounds (250 kilograms) of cannabis at the scene. At the time of his arrest, the authorities alleged that Coronel Barreras coordinated drug trafficking shipments for the Sinaloa Cartel from Mexico through the Arizona border crossing, and that he played an important role in the overall operations of Guzmán.
That afternoon, he was flown to Mexico City for formal identification.
He was later imprisoned at a federal penitentiary in Tamaulipas state, but was later transferred to one in Sinaloa on December 2013. Prison break rumors
On 26 May 2014, local media outlets reported that Coronel Barreras had escaped from the penitentiary in Culiacán, Sinaloa with several other inmates.
The Mexican government discarded the version through Twitter, stating that the story was false and that he was imprisoned at a prison in Hermosillo, Sonora.