Most wanted drug kingpin's wife gives birth in US

US: The wife of a Mexican drug kingpin who is among authorities' most wanted in Mexico and the United States recently gave birth in California but was not arrested herself, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

Emma Coronel, a 22-year-old former beauty queen who is a US citizen, traveled to California in July and "gave birth August 15 to twin girls at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster," the Times reported, citing birth records and a senior US law enforcement official. Colonel is believed to be the third or fourth wife of billionaire fugitive Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, 54, the report said. They wed in 2007 in Mexico when she turned 18.

"Although her husband tops most-wanted lists on both sides of the border, Coronel was not arrested because there are no charges against her," the report cited a US law enforcement official as saying. AFP