Emma Coronel, the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, will be released in Los Angeles on Wednesday following her arrest in 2021 on drug trafficking charges, according to the US Bureau of Prisons.
The 34-year-old, who was born in the United States, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to three counts of assisting the Sinaloa drug cartel, including conspiracy to launder money and distribute illegal drugs and engage in business. financial.
He also admitted to acting as a courier between Guzmán, who led the cartel, and other members of the organization while he was detained in Mexico’s Altiplano prison after his arrest in 2014.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquín Guzmán, will be released from prison in Los Angeles on Wednesday.REUTERS
El Chapo Guzmán’s wife admitted that she helped the drug trafficker by acting as a courier for him. AFP via Getty Images
The sentencing judge said Coronel quickly accepted responsibility and agreed to turn over nearly $1.5 million of the proceeds of his criminal activity to the U.S. government, and his three-year sentence was later reduced.
The Bureau of Prisons said on its website that it would release Coronel on Wednesday from a low-security confinement institution in Los Angeles, without providing further details.
Guzmán, meanwhile, is serving a life sentence in the United States after being extradited there in 2017 following two escapes from maximum-security Mexican prisons, one of them by digging a mile-long tunnel from his cell.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, who pleaded guilty to three counts of aiding the Sinaloa drug cartel, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021. AP
Coronel’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is unclear whether he faces charges for drug trafficking or other crimes within Mexico.
Coronel was also granted two more years of supervised release.
Coronel has two daughters with Guzmán, whom she met when she was a young beauty queen and married in 2007 at age 18.
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