Mexican drug lord El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro to be released from US prison after 2021 arrest

Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested in 2021 for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine

Published on: Sep 13, 2023, 07:18:41 IST

By Sumanti Sen

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The wife of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman will reportedly be released from a US prison on Wednesday, September 13. Former beauty queen and dual US-Mexico citizen Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested in 2021 for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine. She is being held at Long Beach Residential Reentry Management in California at present, according to US Bureau of Prisons records.

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.R (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo) (REUTERS)

On May 30, Emma was transferred there from FMC Carswell in Texas. She pleaded guilty in 2021 to multiple charges, including a money-laundering conspiracy charge and to engaging in transactions with a foreign narcotics trafficker, according to CBS News.

Prosecutors had initially asked for a four-year sentence. However, US District Judge Rudolph Contreras said a three-year term was enough considering Emma’s role was only a small piece of a massive organisation.

"This began when she was a very impressionable minor married to a powerful man more than three decades older," Jeffrey Lichtman, her attorney, said at the time

‘I beg you to not allow them to grow up without the presence of a mother’

El Chapo and Emma share twin daughters. Emma requested the judge during her sentencing that she be given a punishment that would let her watch her then nine-year-old daughters grow up. "I beg you to not allow them to grow up without the presence of a mother," she said.

EL Chapo is serving a life sentence in the US after being convicted on murder conspiracy and drug charges in February 2019. He is serving his time in infamous United States Penitentiary Florence, a supermax federal prison in Colorado. El Chapo was found guilty of running the Sinaloa cartel, an industrial-sized drug trafficking operation. It is known as one of the world’s largest, barbaric and most profitable drug smuggling organisations.

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Sumanti Sen
Sumanti Sen covers everything that’s happening in the US, from politics to entertainment, but her expertise lies in covering crime news. She has comprehensively chronicled the Idaho student murders, the Laken Riley and Iryna Zarutska cases, and the killing of Charlie Kirk, among other incidents. Over the years, she has interviewed several victims/families of victims of crimes seeking justice. She digs up stories that might otherwise remain unheard, and does her bit to ensure that victims and survivors’ voices are heard. Sumanti’s many years of experience also include interviews with Hamas attack survivors and mental health experts, among others. Her coverage of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and interviews with survivors of the tragedy, coupled with her other works including the Titan submersible coverage, earned her the Digi Journo of the Quarter award during her first year at Hindustan Times. Sumanti actively tracks missing person cases in the United States, and peruses Reddit and other social media platforms to bring to light cases that frequently elude public attention. She has extensively covered the disappearances of Nancy Guthrie, Thomas Medlin, Beau Mann, and Sudiksha Konanki, among others. When not at work, you will either find her with her novels, or with her beloved rescue pooches.Read More