Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was transferred to a halfway house in Long Beach as part of her prison sentence for helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
Coronel was sentenced in November 2021 to three years in prison after she pleaded guilty to a money-laundering conspiracy charge and knowingly and willfully conspiring to distribute drugs. The 33-year-old Coronel was transferred from a federal prison in Forth Worth to a confinement facility, or halfway house, in Long Beach on May 30, a spokesperson with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
Prosecutors also allege that Coronel helped plan her husband’s escape from prison in 2015 by smuggling a GPS watch disguised as a food item that helped him dig a tunnel underneath a Mexican prison. During her sentencing in a Washington federal court, Coronel said she had “true regret for any and all harm” she caused, her words translated by a Spanish court interpreter. “I am here before you, asking for forgiveness,” she said.
Guzmán led the Sinaloa cartel for several years and is responsible for importing and distributing more than a million kilograms of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin in the United States, according to federal prosecutors who brought charges against him in 2019 after his capture in northern Sinaloa and extradition to the United States.
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