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Posted 12 Sep 2023, 10:14 pm EDT
More than 2 years after her arrest, Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmánis preparing to leave the rehabilitation center in California this Wednesday.
Last June, Emma Coronel was released from the minimum security federal prison FMC Carswell in Forth Worth, Texas and was transferred to a rehabilitation center in California to serve her sentence, which is about to expire.
The wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was sentenced for helping to run the Mexican drug cartel of which her husband was the boss, according to prison records, for which, in November 2021, she received a sentence of 36 months in federal prison. .
The United States Federal Bureau of Prisons revealed that Emma Coronel’s release date is scheduled for this September 13. https://t.co/D0Zz7lzL7t
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As part of the process, The former beauty queen pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States, for which he was also ordered to pay almost $1.5 million in fines.
Coronel was arrested in February 2021 at Dulles International Airportjust outside the nation’s capital, and convicted on drug trafficking and money laundering charges by a Washington, DC jury that same year.
At his sentencing, Aispuro, through an interpreter, asked for forgiveness and promised to teach his daughters good and evil.
“I beg you not to allow them to grow up without the presence of a mother,” he said.
Aispuro was also accused of conspiring with others to help her husband escape from the Altiplano prison in July 2015.and prosecutors said she also plotted with others to arrange another prison break for the drug lord before his extradition to the United States in January 2017.
In contrast, Guzmán was found guilty in February 2019 of running an industrial-sized drug trafficking operation, the Sinaloa cartel, one of the largest, most profitable and ruthless drug trafficking organizations in the world and was sentenced to life in prison and has since attempted to appeal the conviction.