Wife of 'El Chapo', Emma Coronel, Freed from US Prison

Published By: Shankhyaneel Sarkar
AFP

Last Updated: SEPTEMBER 14, 2023, 07:48 IST
Los Angeles, United States of America (USA)
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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, US. (Image: Reuters)

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.

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.

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