Prosecutors Seek 4 Years In Prison For Wife Of Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo
Prosecutors on Thursday asked the judge to punish the wife of Kingpin Mexican drugs who were imprisoned known as “El Chapo” up to four years behind the bar after he pleaded guilty of the distribution of drugs and money laundering charges.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, a former teen beauty of the Queen who married Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera at the age of 17, also had to lose $ 1.5 million which was bound by his criminal activity, the prosecutor said in the sentence filed in the US District Court for the Columbia District .
Coronel Aispuro, 32, pleaded guilty in June to three accusations of conspiring to distribute illegal drugs, conspire by washing money and enaging in financial transactions with the Sinaloa Narcotics cartel.
He faced punishment on November 30.
As part of his request agreement with the prosecutor, Coronel Aispuro also admitted acting as a courier between Guzman and other members of the Sinaloa cartel when he was detained at Prison Altiplano Mexico after the 2014 arrest after the 2014 arrest.
Guzman used the communication to plan escorts in 2015 from prison, North Toluca, Mexico, through an underground tunnel built by a cartel that led to the bathroom in his cell.
Mr. Medication was arrested again in January 2016 and was extradited one year later to the United States. He was punished in February 2019 from drug trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, murder, and other charges.
Guzman was sentenced to July 2019 to life behind bars and serving his time in a US prison near Florence, Colorado, “supermax” facility designed for the most dangerous inmates.
Coronel Aispuro, who was born in the Teluk San Francisco area and has Dual Us-Mexico citizenship, was arrested in February 2021 at Dulles International Airport.
