El Chapo’s beauty queen wife Emma Coronel is set to be released from prison
- Emma Coronel is scheduled to be released from prison Wednesday
- The U.S.-born 34-year-old was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to three counts of helping the Sinaloa drug cartel
Notorious drug kingpin Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s beauty queen wife Emma Coronel is scheduled to be released from prison in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The U.S.-born 34-year-old was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to three counts of helping the Sinaloa drug cartel, including conspiracy to launder money and distribute illegal drugs and engaging in financial dealings.
Coronel was transferred from Federal Medical Center Carswell (FMC) in Fort Worth, Texas, to a facility administered by Residential Reentry Management (RMM) Long Beach on May 30.
She also admitted to acting as a courier between Guzman, who led the cartel, and other organization members while he was being held in Mexico’s Altiplano prison after his 2014 arrest.
Her sentencing judge said Coronel had quickly accepted responsibility and agreed to forfeit nearly $1.5 million of proceeds from her criminal activity to the U.S. government, and her three-year sentence was later reduced.
Emma Coronel, the wife of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, will serve the remaining three months of her three-year sentence at a California halfway house
The Bureau of Prisons said on its website it would release Coronel on Wednesday from a low-security confinement institution in Los Angeles, without giving further details.
Meanwhile, Guzman is serving a life sentence in U.S. after being extradited there in 2017 following two escapes from Mexican maximum-security prisons, once by digging a mile-long tunnel from his cell.
Coronel’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It is not clear whether she faces charges for drug trafficking or other crimes inside Mexico.
Coronel was also given a further two years of supervised release.
Coronel has two daughters with Guzman, whom she met when she was a young beauty queen and married in 2007 at age 18.
This is a developing story.
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