Wife of 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to 3 years in prison

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FILE - Emma Coronel, woman of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrives astatine national tribunal successful New York, Feb. 7, 2019. Prosecutors asked a justice connected Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, to enforce a four-year situation condemnation for Coronel, who volition beryllium sentenced astatine the extremity of the period for conspiring to administer heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

Posted at 4:25 PM, Nov 30, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-30 17:32:17-05

The wife of Mexican cause kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced to 3 years successful situation connected cause trafficking charges.

Emma Coronel Aispuro pleaded blameworthy successful June to national cause trafficking and wealth laundering charges.

Coronel Aispuro besides helped her hubby program a melodramatic flight done a passageway dug underneath a situation successful Mexico successful 2015 by smuggling a GPS ticker to him disguised arsenic a nutrient item.

Prosecutors had asked for 4 years successful situation during a proceeding successful national tribunal successful Washington, but U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras imposed a shorter term, saying her relation was a tiny portion of a overmuch larger organization.

Guzman ran a cause ringing successful Mexico that included a monolithic smuggling cognition into the U.S.

Guzman was arrested and extradited to the U.S.. He was convicted connected galore charges successful 2019 and is expected to walk the remainder of his beingness successful prison.