Emma Coronel Aispuro, woman Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, has waived his right to a preliminary hearing and has not yet been found guilty of the charges against him.
Colonel Aispuro, 31, can be incarcerated in the United States for a minimum of 10 years and up to life imprisonment for his involvement in the drug trade of the Sinaloa Cartel Under the direction of her husband, Judge Robin Meriweather of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said in February.
The magistrate stated on February 23 that she could also be fined $ 10 million.
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The wife of “El Chapo”, the drug dealer who is being extradited U.S In 2017 she was arrested at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. Two years earlier, her husband had been found guilty in New York of shipping tons of drugs to the United States for more than 25 years.
Coronel attended almost daily the trial of “El Chapo,” who has been incarcerated for life in the ADX maximum security prison in Colorado since his July 2019 sentence.
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While it is not uncommon to forgo a preliminary hearing, Coronel is charged with crimes committed between 2011 and January 2017 in “Mexico and elsewhere,” according to the charges that led to his arrest warrant.
The revelations of her arrest have sparked controversy as documents from Mexican and US authorities showed that Coronel made a failed attempt at a final and third escape for her husband, “El Chapo,” after his 2016 arrest.
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