El Chapo’s beauty queen wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, is released from US custody in Long Beach after serving two years for drug charges
- Authorities confirmed that Aispuro had been released in Los Angeles, California
- She served two years of her sentence in a Texas prison before being moved
- The dual US-Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty to multiple federal drug charges
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The wife of Mexican crime lord El Chapo has been released from US custody after serving less than two years in prison.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, was released from a halfway house, which is part of the Long Beach Residential Reentry Management, on Wednesday afternoon.
She was sentenced to three years in prison in November 2021 for helping her husband in his multi-billion-dollar drug empire.
In a statement, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said: ‘We can confirm Emma Coronel Aispuro was released from the custody of the FBOP today, September 13, 2023.
‘For privacy, safety, and security, the FBOP does not provide additional information on those who are no longer in our custody.’
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, was released from the Long Beach Residential Reentry Management on Wednesday afternoon, according to NBC News
She was sentenced to three years in prison in November 2021 for helping her husband in his multi-billion-dollar drug empire
Colonel Aispuro, a dual US-Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty to multiple federal drug charges.
Colonel Aispuro, a dual US-Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty to multiple federal drug charges
They included conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.
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She previously begged for forgiveness during her sentencing, according to Telemundo.
The mother vowed she will teach her daughters right from wrong, saying: ‘I beg you to not allow them to grow up without the presence of a mother .’
A judge in the case entered a forfeiture money judgment of almost $1.5million, which came from the illicit deals.
Former beauty queen Aispuro was arrested in February 2021 at Dulles International Airport.
She had been helping her husband, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, escape from a high-security Mexican prison in 2015.
Guzmán, who was then the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, was captured and returned to prison, before his wife again plotted his escape in 2017.
Former beauty queen Aispuro was arrested in February 2021 at Dulles International Airport
He was convicted in the US of engaging in a continual criminal enterprise and other counts of distributing tons of cocaine in 2019.
The infamous drug cartel boss is serving a life sentence in prison, plus 30 years for the charges. He has since tried to appeal the conviction.
Aispuro was moved from a federal prison in Texas, to a halfway house in Long Beach, California, in June, ahead of her release.
This is a developing story.
