Emma Coronel, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, will be released in Los Angeles on Wednesday following her 2021 arrest on drug-trafficking charges, according to the US Bureau of Prisons.
The 34-year-old US-born man 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 traffic in illegal drugs and engaging in financial dealings.
He also admitted to acting as a courier between Guzman, who heads the cartel, and other members of the organization while he was held in a Mexican Altiplano prison following his 2014 arrest.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, Joaquin Guzman’s wife, will be released from prison in Los Angeles on Wednesday.REUTERS
El Chapo Guzman’s wife admitted that she helped the drug lord by acting as a courier for him. AFP via Getty Images
The sentencing judge said Coronel had quickly accepted responsibility and agreed to forfeit nearly $1.5 million in proceeds of his criminal activities to the US government, and his three-year sentence was later reduced.
The Bureau of Prisons said on its website it would release Coronel on Wednesday from a low-security correctional institution in Los Angeles, without providing further details.
Meanwhile, Guzman is serving a life sentence in the US after being extradited there in 2017 following two escapes from Mexico’s maximum security prison, once 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 attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is unclear if he faces charges for drug trafficking or other crimes in Mexico.
The colonel was also granted two more years of supervised release.
Koronel has two daughters with Guzman, whom he met when she was a young beauty queen and married in 2007 at the age of 18.
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