2023-09-13 21:02:29
Emma Coronelbest known for being the drug lord’s third wife Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmánwas released on parole this Wednesday after being detained in USA almost 3 years ago for various charges related to drug trafficking.
The US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confirmed in a statement to the US network NBC News that Coronel had been released this Wednesday.
The BOP had only made public a file with the information of the former prisoner and a date established for her release: today, Wednesday, September 13, but they did not agree to provide more information in this regard.
His lawyers, led by Puerto Rican Mariel Colón, who has also defended other well-known faces such as ‘Chapo’ himself or the financial magnate and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, did not want to offer EFE details about his situation.
The mother of two of ‘El Chapo’s’ daughters had been in community confinement regime in the city of Long Beach (southern California, USA) within a “halfway house”, a facility managed by the BOP to expedite their reintegration process.
During this time he was able to apply for a limited number of exits during the day as long as they had the specific purpose of adapting to society, but their movements were monitored by BOP personnel.
Colonel will be now on parole for the next 48 monthsin which you must remain within the judicial district assigned to you, notify government agents of any change of address and look for employment.
Guilty of money laundering and drug trafficking
The also “influencer” was arrested in February 2021 when she landed at Washington-Dulles International Airport (Virginia, USA), accused of helping her husband run his multimillion-dollar Sinaloa Cartel criminal empireas well as conspiring to escape from the El Altiplano prison (Mexico) in 2015.
“She had a papel crucial logistically planning the escape and, while he was free, as a messenger from “El Chapo” to other leaders of the cartel,” Nathan P. Jones, an expert on Mexican criminal organizations for the Baker Institute (Rice University, Texas), explained to EFE.
Just a few months later, in November 2021, the woman, a Mexican-American national, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty for having participated in money laundering operations and trafficking five kilos of cocaine, one kilo of heroin and a half of methamphetamines to the United States.
Likewise, he delivered 1.5 million dollars to the United States Government as compensation for obtaining funds from drug trafficking.
Her first year and a half of her sentence was spent in the minimum security prison for women at FMC Carswell (Texas, USA), located approximately 1,120 kilometers -700 miles- from the ADX Florence prison (Colorado, USA). , where “El Chapo” is currently serving his life sentence.
It is unknown whether Coronel will now be allowed to have telephone or letter contact with the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, who, aware of his wife’s release, made a formal request two weeks ago to the judge in charge of his case, Brian Cogan, to that will let him receive visits from his daughters and her.
“It is also not ruled out that at some point Emma Coronel returns to wanting to capitalize on her husband’s fame through publications on social networks or gossip programs that continue turning their case into a spectacle and enlarging their figure,” Jones said.
With a difference between both of them of 32 years of age, Coronel and ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán They met in 2006 during the celebration of local festivals in her hometown, Canelas (Durango, Mexico), which crowned her as beauty queen.
Daughter of Nacho Coronel, one of ‘El Chapo’s’ main partners until his death in 2010, she captivated the drug trafficker to the point that just a year later, when she turned 18, they decided to get married and five years later they became parents. of twins.
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