In addition, she was sentenced to four more years of supervised residence and to pay a fine of 300 dollars, instead of the 1.5 million dollars suggested by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, was sentenced this Tuesday to three years in prison by a US court in Washington, after having admitted last June that she collaborated in her husband’s drug empire and pleading guilty to three crimes.
In addition to the 36 months in jail (of which the ones he has served since his arrest last February will be reduced), she was sentenced to four more years of supervised residence and to pay a fine of 300 dollars, instead of the 1.5 million dollars suggested by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The Prosecutor’s Office had also suggested to the judge that he be sentenced to four years in prison and five more years of probation.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was found guilty of conspiring to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana.
Coronel, who attended her husband’s trial in New York every day dressed in luxurious accessories, heard his sentence after having lost forgiveness and assuring that she feels “ashamed” for her actions. She also asked the judge not to be harsh in sentencing her.
“I know that it may be difficult for you to ignore that I am Guzmán’s wife and you may feel the obligation to be tougher, but I beg you not to do so.” Colonel said in Spanish.
By acknowledging his guilt last June in an agreement with the United States government, Coronel avoided trial and a sentence that could have reached up to ten years in prison.
The Mexican also assured the judge that He is “suffering” for the damage he has done to his family and asked him to allow him to be with his daughters “who are already growing up without one of their parents.” “That is why I ask you not to grow up without your mother,” said Coronel, referring to the death row sentence imposed on Guzmán Loera, leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
Coronel, mother of two twins from her relationship with Guzmán Loera, She was arrested last February at the Dulles Airport in Virginia and has since been held without bail.
When passing the sentence, the judge indicated that Coronel has no criminal record and also that other sentences that he has imposed on other members of the Sinaloa Cartel, accused of trafficking more drugs, were also below that recommended by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Once Coronel is on supervised freedom, he must deliver a DNA sample, the judge also ordered. (I)
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