Weekly Rewind: BP agents rescue 5-year-old, Jessica Slaughter makes history, Emma Coronel pleads guilty
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DESERT SOUTHWEST (KYMA, KECY) - We start off this week with the discovery of a five-year-old girl whom was discovered wandering around along the border wall in San Ysidro, California.
U.S. Border Patrol said it found her around 10 in the morning on Monday. Agents claimed they saw the child being dropped off near the end of the border wall.
Visible in captured footage, the child walks along the Tijuana River into American territory. That's when law enforcement quickly responded to the scene, and rescued her from the hazardous environment.
Upon questioning her, they determined she was from Guatemala. Agents then transported her to the station for processing and notified both Guatemalan consulates and well as Health and Human Services.
The Yuma Union High School District also made history this week with their announcement of Jessica Slaughter as the new head varsity football coach.
Slaughter has been an assistant with the Gila Ridge program for the past four seasons, but this is the first time in the history of Yuma Union High School District Athletics that a female coach is taking the reigns of an entire football program.
The 27-year-old is also a Gila Ridge graduate who has experience as the head track and field coach for the Hawks. She is also the 4th consecutive Hawks football coach that's taken the reigns of the program before the age of 30; after the previous coaching eras of Tyler Kosel, Corey Semler and John Ellegood.
Slaughter is only the 3rd female to become a head football coach at the prep level in the entire state of Arizona.
The wife of "El Chapo," one of the world's most powerful drug lords, has agreed to plead guilty to helping him run his Mexican cartel, according to unsealed court documents.
Emma Coronel entered her plea in a federal court in Washington nearly two years after Guzman was sentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; as well as drug trafficking and firearms charges as leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
She plead guilty to being a “minimal participant” in helping her husband run his drug empire.
Coronel was charged in a one-count criminal complaint with conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, five kilograms or more of cocaine, 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and 500 grams or more of methamphetamines for unlawful importation into the country, according to a news release from the Justice Department.
The complaint also cited her alleged involvement in Guzman’s 2015 escape from a Mexican prison. As part of Coronel’s plea, she will not be required to cooperate with U.S. authorities.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), over 33.2 million coronavirus-related cases have been tracked within the U.S.
That being said, California accounts for about 11.3% of national cases; while Arizona equates to 2.6%.
In regard to nationwide vaccinations, the CDC reports nearly 310 million have been administered. Arizona seems to make up not even 2% of the nation's total vaccine administrations, with California representing almost 12.7%.
