After nearly two years of serving time for drug trafficking and money laundering charges, Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been released from a US prison, as confirmed by a prison official on Wednesday, September 13.
During her sentencing, Coronel, a dual US-Mexican citizen, expressed profound remorse for her involvement with Guzman and the Sinaloa Cartel, acknowledging the harm she may have caused.
Guzman, convicted in 2019 of engaging in a criminal enterprise, drug trafficking, and firearms charges, is currently serving a life sentence at Colorado’s Supermax prison after twice escaping from prison in Mexico.
Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison in November 2021 after pleading guilty to charges related to El Chapo’s narcotics empire. Her sentence also included four years of supervised release and a forfeiture of $1.5 million.
“We can confirm Emma Coronel Aispuro was released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) today, September 13, 2023,” spokesperson Randilee Giamusso said.
“For privacy, safety, and security, the FBOP does not provide additional information on those who are no longer in our custody,” she added.
Coronel, who was held at a residential reentry management facility in Long Beach, California, according to the prison bureau’s inmate locator, is now a free woman.
