The US-born 34-year-old was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 in the case against the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Los Angeles:
Emma Coronel, the wife of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, will not face charges in Mexico, the country’s prosecutor’s office said, after she was released from a U.S. federal facility on Wednesday.
A Mexican prosecutor’s office official said Coronel will not be charged “for now.”
The US-born 34-year-old was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to aiding Guzman’s Sinaloa drug cartel, including conspiring to launder money, distribute illegal drugs and engage in financial transactions.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that she had been released from a low-security prison in Los Angeles on Wednesday, but did not provide further information due to privacy, safety and security reasons.
Coronel has two daughters with Guzman, whom she met when she was a young beauty queen and married in 2007 at the age of 18.
Guzman is now serving a life sentence in the US after being extradited there in 2017 following two escapes from Mexican maximum security prisons.
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