After a year in prison, “El Chapo’s” wife is out on parole

Emma Coronel, wife of drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was released on parole from a United States prison this Wednesday, September 13, after being imprisoned for more than a year.

This was confirmed to Telemundo network by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) via email.

“We can confirm that Emma Coronel Aispuro was released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons today, September 13, 2023,” explained Randilee Giamusso, spokesperson for the agency.

“For privacy and security reasons, the FBOP does not provide additional information about people who are no longer in its custody,” the official added in the email.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34 years old, arrested in Virginia in February 2021, pleaded guilty to cooperating with the drug trafficking business of El Chapo, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 in the United States, for the importation of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine into this country and money laundering.

The Mexican was serving her sentence in Texas until last June when she was transferred to the transition center where she must leave today.

The former beauty queen married the most wanted drug trafficker in the United States in 2007 and they are parents of twin daughters.

According to the federal prosecutor’s office at that time, it was a minor sentence because his participation was “minimal” within the machinery of a large criminal organization. Coronel Aispuro attracted the attention of the public and the media as she attended her husband’s trial in New York every day.

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