Emma Coronel, wife of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín
El Chapo
Guzmán, will hear her sentence this Tuesday in a court in the District of Columbia, after a few days ago the US Attorney's Office requested a four-year prison sentence for drug trafficking.
Coronel, 32,
pleaded guilty in June to three counts
of helping her husband run his criminal empire: conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana;
conspiracy to launder money;
and transactions related to drug trafficking.
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In addition to the four years in jail, District of Columbia prosecutors asked for
five years of probation
as well as seizing more than $ 1.4 million from him.
Coronel has been in jail since she was arrested in February this year at Dulles Airport in Virginia.
According to the constitutional lawyer Joseph Malouf, it is possible that Joaquín Guzmán Loera's wife will spend her sentence in a
medium-security prison
where there will be no convicts for such serious crimes, thanks to her collaboration with the authorities.
Emma Coronel will serve her sentence in conditions very different from those of her husband 'El Chapo'
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The prosecution explains in the 15 pages of her statement before the sentence, that Coronel benefited financially from her husband's criminal activities.
He also says that in July 2015,
El Chapo's
wife
helped him escape from the Altiplano prison in the state of Mexico.
The Mexican made it through an underground tunnel.
El Chapo
, one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world, led the cartel responsible for trafficking cocaine and other drugs to the United States for more than 25 years, according to US prosecutors.
His "Army of hitmen" had the order to kidnap, torture and kill anyone who got in their way, according to the US government.
The morning news, Tuesday, November 30, 2021
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In Mexico, Guzmán became a legend after escaping twice from prison, which gave him an image of invincible before the authorities.
In 2017, however, he was extradited to the United States.
He went to trial and was sentenced to life in prison.
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