The wife of famously known drug lord El Chapo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, previously pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking case back in June of this year. Following up with this plea, a local judge has recently sentenced the 32-year-old woman to three years in federal prison for helping her husband smuggle illegal drugs across the United States border and into the country. The Mexican native had also pleaded guilty to assisting in El Chapo’s initial escape from a high-security Mexican prison; a scheme that included a mile-long underground tunnel that was dug towards his cell, a handless rail cart, and an exclusive GPS watch.
Taking place this past Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Aispuro’s attorney Anthony J. Nardozzi claimed, “The defendant was not an organizer, leader, boss or other type of manager… Rather she was a cog in a very large wheel of a criminal organization.” This of course was started in hopes of having his client sentenced reduced to the minimal punishments for her guilty crimes. Her lawyer also put on the record that he “does not know if she can go back to her home in Mexico,” due to obvious life-threatening reasons.
One of the agreements in her plea deal with the U.S. government was to successfully turn in a total of $1.5 million from her husband’s illegal businesses activities, along with confessing to aiding him in transporting over 90 kilograms of heroin, 450 kilograms of cocaine, and 90,000 kilograms of cannabis into North America. Born Joaquin Guzman, the notorious Mexican drug lord is currently serving life behind bars inside of a supermax security prison, the United States Penitentiary located in Florence, Colorado, after being sentenced back in July 2019. It is still uncertain what exact prison his wife will be transported to, but citizens can rightfully assume that it will be far from her husband and under a similar amount of high-end security.