Emma Coronel, wife of “El Chapo” Guzmán, was transferred to a Texas prison

Emma Colonelthe wife of the Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmanhas been transferred to a Texas prison, one of her lawyers told AFP on Tuesday.

SIGHT: Emma Coronel, wife of “El Chapo” Guzmán, will be released from prison in September 2023

The former beauty queen was sentenced last November to three years in prison for her participation in the powerful Sinaloa cartel led by her husband and until now was serving her sentence in a prison in Alexandria, in the state of Virginia (northeast).

Colonel arrived on Monday at the FMC Carswell prison in Texas (south). “Yes, she has been transferred there,” Jeffrey Lichtman, Emma Coronel’s lawyer, told AFP in an email.

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FMC Carswell is a federal prison for women in North Texas, with a “minimum security satellite camp” and an “administrative security” medical center, according to the website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP, for its acronym). in English). Visits to the compound, which houses 1,237 inmates, are suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. covid-19 until new notice.

According to the BOP, Coronel will be released from prison on September 13, 2023, when he will have served 85% of his sentence.

In addition to 36 months in prison, Coronel was sentenced to 48 months of probation and the payment of 1.5 million dollars to the US State.

“In any case, Colonel will be released to a reintegration center or under house arrest in less than 15 months,” his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Coronel, with US and Mexican citizenship, was arrested on February 22, 2021 at Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, for alleged “complicity” in her husband’s drug trafficking business.

On June 10, she pleaded guilty to all three charges filed against her: conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs in the United States, conspiracy to launder narcotics money, and involvement in financial transactions with a drug trafficking organization.

Coronel, niece of Ignacio Coronel, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, was born on July 2, 1989 in California, but spent most of her life in Mexico. In 2007 she married “El Chapo”, 32 years older than her, and with him she had her twins, Emali Guadalupe and María Joaquina.

“El Chapo” was sentenced in July 2019 in United States to life in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering and arms trafficking, among other charges.

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Source: Elcomercio

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