Prosecutors are seeking a four-year prison term for the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested in February at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington and pled guilty to all three charges against her in June, including drug trafficking and money laundering.
According to a court document filed Thursday, prosecutors also requested that she be sentenced to five years of supervised release and fined $1.5 million.
“El Chapo” led the Sinaloa cartel, one of Mexico’s most renowned drug trafficking organizations.
According to court documents, he led an operation that brought tons of narcotics into the United States and was responsible for multiple murders.
According to the Justice Department, the cartel imported more than 495 tons of cocaine, 99 tons of heroin, 49 tons of methamphetamine, and 99 tons of marijuana over a 25-year period.
Coronel, a 32-year-old former beauty queen, has been accused of acting as a go-between for “El Chapo” and his men.
According to authorities, she also assisted “El Chapo” in his 2015 escape from a Mexican prison.
The drug lord escaped from a Mexican prison twice, first by hiding in a laundry cart and the other by slipping down a tunnel that led to his prison shower.
Coronel married “El Chapo” in 2007 and is the mother of their twin daughters.
Until his capture in 2016 and extradition to the United States in 2017, Guzman was widely regarded as the world’s most powerful drug trafficker.
He was sentenced to life in prison in July 2019 and is currently serving it at a Colorado maximum-security prison.
Coronel attended practically every day of his trial, which lasted more than three months between November 2018 and February 2019.
Her sentence is set for November 30.
