“I hope she raises her daughters in a different environment,” the US judge who convicted her told Emma Coronel.

Emma Coronel Aispuro She has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for three crimes related to international narcotics trafficking and her relationship with the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal organization led by her husband, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.

The fsicalía requested 48 months in prison for her, a request lower than what the sentencing guidelines mark, which could range from 57 to 71 months in prison, considering that she was not a leader in the criminal organization.

During the hearing, before the federal court of the court of the District of Columbia, in the city of Washington, Colonel he asked for forgiveness. “I want to express my sincere regret for all the damage caused”. He also said that He did not want his daughters to grow up without both parents, given that “El Chapo” is serving a life sentence in a Colorado jail.

“I hope you raise your twins in a different environment than what you have experienced to date”, the judge told him at the conclusion of the hearing.

Colonel Aispuro, who appeared before the federal court of the court of the District of Columbia, in the city of Washington, and accused of conspiring from 2011 to January 2017 in drug trafficking “knowingly and intentionally”, had come to a plea agreement with the United States Attorney’s Office for the three charges against him: conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and marijuana; money laundering, and participation in property transactions belonging to a drug trafficker.

With the agreement, signed in June, it avoided the holding of a trial in the case and opened the door to sentences less than those established by the official guidelines: while the normal would have been a sentence of between 135 to 168 months in prison, with reductions, mitigating measures and their “minimal role” in criminal acts lowered the range of punishment to between 57 and 71 months in prison.

Emma Coronel, from her Instagram reign to jail in the US

According to a BBC publication, Coronel was born in Santa Clara, California, but grew up in the La Angostura ranchería, in the northern region of Mexico known as the “Golden Triangle” of drug trafficking.

Coronel is the niece of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, who in life was compadre of “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Emma studied journalism at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa and it was in 2011 when she gave birth to the twins she had with Guzmán Loera, María Joaquina and Emaly Guadalupe.

At the age of 17 he met “El Chapo” Guzmán and from that moment, interest in the young and beautiful wife of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel grew. Emma was into cameras, social media, and fame.

Following her husband’s third arrest in 2019, Emma became the star of the VH1 reality show “Cartel Crew”.

Emma Coronel and the other narco ladies

The sentence of Coronel Aispuro is given in the framework of the publication of the book “Emma and the other ladies of the narco”, where Anabel Hernández assures that she was defiant after the trial of “El Chapo” in the United States, where Emma won reflectors.

During the trial of Guzmán Loera, who became the most powerful and richest drug trafficker in the world, various infidelities of the capo were exposed, while Emma Coronel was present.

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