However, six months before being released, Coronel will be able to benefit from a program that only applies to inmates who are citizens, which will allow him to go out during the day and return to sleep in a prison facility, a period where prisoners are prepared prisoners to reinsert themselves into life in freedom.Ĭoronel will also be subject to serving four years of supervised release. Now, far from that life, Coronel awaits the reunion with his daughters and his family, with whom he maintains telephone communication because due to the covid pandemic, visits to the prison are prohibited. The agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, pleading guilty allowed him to benefit from a sentence reductionwhich according to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office was a minor conviction because his participation was “minimal” within the machinery of a large criminal organization.ĭuring her husband’s trial, it came to light that she helped in the spectacular escape of Guzmán Loera through a tunnel from a prison in Mexico in 2015 and in other illicit activities.Ĭoronel, who has 10-year-old twin daughters with Guzmán Loera, was the center of attention during her husband’s trial in New York and for her ostentatious life, such as the seventh birthday she gave her daughters inspired by the Barbie doll, whose photos posted on Instagram. The Guzmán-Coronel casesĬolonel pleaded guilty to cooperating with the drug trafficking business of Guzmán Loera, who is serving a life sentence in the United States, for the importation of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine and money laundering.Īlso of another crime related to financial operations in the commercial and residential properties of “El Chapo”, all throughout her marriage to the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, whom she married in 2007, when she turned 18. In addition to living only in an authorized home, the wife of “El Chapo” must find work and work at least 30 hours a week, according to 13 rules of the court document. In Coronel’s sentence, issued by Judge Rudolph Contreras, of the District of Washington DC, it is specified that, once he is released from prison, he must let the officer in charge of his case collect his DNA. Emma must follow the prison rulesĪccording to prison rules, cited by the Department of Justice, as of July 1, 1999, “offenders must serve 85% of their sentence.” If the people with convictions committed their crimes with violence, then the sentence must be fulfilled one hundred percent. The BOP notes that it still does not have Coronel in custody, who is in the Alexandria, Virginia prison, where she has been held since she was detained on Februat Dulles International Airport. So He will be released from prison sometime in May 2023.”. “That does not reflect the time in confinement at home… for the last 10%. “The 36-month sentence means that he must serve 30.6 months”, exposed the lawyer explaining 85% of the time that Guzmán’s wife must be in prison. Inmates must serve 85 percent of their sentence, which means that “ Colonel should be out in May 2023by serving 30.6 of the 36 months (three years) sentence and taking into account the time he has been in prison,” added Lichtman. “No,” he said when asked about a supposed reduction in the sentence handed down last November. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) indicated that Emma Coronel would be released on September 13, 2023, generating confusion about the time that women with dual citizenship, American and Mexican, must serve in a federal prison. Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmánwho is serving a sentence in a United States prison for her participation in her husband’s drug trafficking business, He would be released in May 2023as confirmed by his lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman to La Opinion.

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