Washington (EFE).- Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán, has been transferred from a prison in Texas to a transition center for inmates in California before her release.
A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Donald Murphy, told EFE this Wednesday that Coronel Aispuro was transferred on May 30 from the Texas prison where he was located, the Carswell Federal Medical Center, to which the authorities call “community confinement”, under the Office of Residential Reentry Management of Long Beach (California).
This means that Coronel Aispuro would currently be either confined to a private home or to a residential re-entry center, known as a transition home.
Murphy declined to provide more details about the conditions in which Coronel Aispuro is currently confined or the reason for her transfer.
freedom in september
Chapo’s wife is scheduled to be released on September 13 after serving the three-year sentence she received. After the ten months that she spent she was detained without bail were subtracted.
According to the BOP’s website, halfway houses are places where help is provided to inmates nearing release to help them “gradually rebuild their ties to the community.”
In these centers they are offered a “safe, structured and supervised” environment. As well as employment advice, assistance in managing your finances and other programs.
In February 2022, the BOP reported the transfer of Coronel Aispuro to the FMC Carswell minimum security prison in North Texas. She after her sentencing in November 2021 for her involvement in her husband’s drug trafficking operations.
Arrest of Emma Coronel
Colonel Aispuro arrested in February 2021 at Dulles airport in Virginia. In June of that year, she pleaded guilty to cooperating with the drug trafficking business of El Chapo, who is serving a life sentence in the US for importing cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into this country and for money laundering.
The 33-year-old woman also pleaded guilty to another crime related to financial operations related to the commercial and residential properties of the drug trafficker. All carried out during her marriage to the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, whom she married in 2007, when she turned 18.
The plea agreement allowed him to benefit from a sentence reduction. According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, it was a minor sentence because his participation was “minimal” within the gear of a large criminal organization.
During her husband’s trial, it came to light that she helped in Guzmán’s spectacular escape. Through a prison tunnel in Mexico in 2015 and in other illicit activities.
Coronel Aispuro, who has underage twin daughters with Guzmán, was the center of attention during her husband’s trial in New York for his ostentatious life, such as the seventh birthday he gave his daughters inspired by the Barbie doll, whose photos posted on Instagram.