FILE PHOTO: Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquin Guzman, departs after the trial of Mexican drug lord Guzman, known as “El Chapo”, at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, in New York, U.S., February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Los Angeles, United States — Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was released on Wednesday after serving nearly two years of a three-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
The 34-year-old Coronel was released from a halfway house in Long Beach, California, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The former beauty queen, who married the ruthless drug czar when she was a teenager, was sentenced to three years in prison by a US judge in November 2021.
Guzman was extradited from Mexico to the United States in 2017 and sentenced in July 2019 to life in prison.
FEATURED STORIES
During her trial, prosecutors and her defense lawyers said Coronel was not involved in the core business of Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel, which shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs into the United States.
“The defendant’s actual role was a minimal one,” prosecutor Anthony Nardozzi said.
“The defendant was not a leader, organizer, boss or other type of manager,” Nardozzi said. “Rather she was a cog in a very large wheel of a criminal organization.”
Coronel, who helped facilitate Guzman’s spectacular 2015 escape from a Mexican prison, regularly attended her husband’s trial in New York.
A dual US-Mexican citizen, Coronel was able to move in and out of the United States freely until she was arrested at Dulles International Airport outside Washington in February 2021.
RELATED STORIES
Wife of Mexico drug cartel’s El Chapo arrested in Virginia — US Justice Dep’t
Mexico arrests son of notorious drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.
Read Next
EDITORS’ PICK
Subscribe to INQUIRER PLUS to get access to The Philippine Daily Inquirer & other 70+ titles, share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download as early as 4am & share articles on social media. Call 896 6000.
For feedback, complaints, or inquiries, contact us.
This post was originally published on this site be sure to check out more of their content.
