The wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is a free woman after serving three years in federal prison for holding her husband down during his massive drug operation.
Emma Coronel Aispuro walked out of a halfway house on Wednesday, the New York Post confirmed. She’d previously been held at a federal prison in Texas before being relocated to Long Beach, California, where she spent the remainder of her sentence. The 33-year-old was handed down a three-year punishment in November 2021 after pleading guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy charges. She was also accused of helping her husband orchestrate his 2015 prison break in Mexico, smuggling him a GPS watch that helped his co-conspirators build a tunnel to free him. Prosecutors believe Aispuro supported El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel since they married in 2007. American authorities have tied El Chapo to at least 33 murders, though he notoriously claimed to have killed thousands.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons would not confirm where Aispuro was headed after her release. However, she must now complete four years of supervised release and pay over a million dollars in fines. Aispuro originally faced ten years behind bars but was granted a lighter sentence as part of an agreement with the federal government. Aispuro also did not have a criminal record prior to her conviction, which helped her case. Aispuro expressed remorse for her involvement in aiding the cartel.
El Chapo is housed at Colorado’s Supermax prison, serving a life term. He spends 23 hours a day in lockdown. However, in a recent letter to the federal judge who handed down his life imprisonment, he claimed guards were mistreating him because they feared he’d escape once again. No one has ever successfully broken out of the facility, so those chances are quite slim.
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