The wife of Joaquin Guzman, Mexico's most wanted drug magnate has given birth to twin girls at a hospital in the US.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Emma Coronel had her daughters at Antelope Valley Hospital in northern Los Angeles on 15 August.
Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman is the chief of Mexico's most influential drug-trafficking gang, the Sinaloa cartel.
Ms. Coronel, an ex- beauty queen who holds US citizenship, come back to Mexico after the twins were born.
Due to born at California, the children will also have American nationality.
Birth certificates listed 22-year-old Ms Coronel as the mother of the girls, but the spaces for the father's name column were left infill, said the LA Times.
American law enforcement authorities, who pursued her movements even before she journeyed to the hospital in Lancaster in mid-July, said she was not detained because there were no allegations against her.
Ms Coronel is considered to be the third or fourth wife of Guzman, the 54-year-old of wealthiest person.
The couple wedded on her eighteenth birthday at a generous wedding in the uplands of central Mexico in 2007.
The American officials have located a $5m (£3.25m) bounty on Guzman's head, claiming that he and his cartel manage the largest part of cocaine and marijuana transferred into the US from Mexico and Colombia.
Guzman's call El Chapo means Shorty - he is about 5ft 6 in (1.67m) tall.
Guzman made Forbes magazine's list of the 67 World's Most Powerful People two years before. On the serial of 41, he was just lower Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
