El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, is released from US custody

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 (pictured left), 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.

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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.’ Colonel Aispuro, a dual US-Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty to multiple federal drug charges.

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.

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