The wife of a powerful drug lord got sentenced today.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 32, married to El Chapo Guzman, must do three years in federal prison.
She was sentenced today (November 30). Back in June, she pleaded guilty to federal charges of helping her husband run a drug cartel. In addition to three years, she’ll also have four years of supervised release for drug trafficking and money laundering. Black Twitter had to chime in on the situation; take a look:
https://twitter.com/allaboutme0316/status/1465783850689339392?s=21https://twitter.com/chellychels2/status/1465792612904968195?s=21https://twitter.com/mariaacoss/status/1465834040230137859?s=21https://twitter.com/teatime75/status/1465779681756598290?s=21https://twitter.com/xochongo/status/1465785715980214277?s=21https://twitter.com/sowhat_fuh_q/status/1465804172092129291?s=21
Free El Chapo’s Wife ❗️She don’t know nothing 🗣
— 𝒞𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓈 🀄️ シェリ (@Chellychels2) November 30, 2021
El Chapo’s wife a baddie lmao I think I love her pic.twitter.com/ezVWhGJafT
— maria 🇵🇸 (@mariaacoss) December 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/xochongo/status/1465785715980214277?s=21
They gon break El Chapo’s wife outta jail by the weekend 😂😂
— Godde$$ (@SoWhat_FUH_Q) November 30, 2021
Emma was arrested in February at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. She was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana in the United States. The Justice Department wrote in a statement Emma had planned on giving the drug profit money to El Chapo. The ride-or-die wife also had to forfeit $1.5 million.
Authorities also believe Emma helped El Chapo escape a maximum Mexican prison in 2015. He climbed out of a tiny hole in his shower in his cell. He was found a little over six months later in 2016 by Mexican authorities. This was the second time El Chapo escaped prison over there.
After Chapo’s 2016 arrest, a witness told U.S. authorities that Emma gave a Mexican official $2 million to oversee Guzman’s transfer from one prison to another. According to U.S. attorneys, Emma did this to try to plan another escape. One year later, El Chapo was extradited to America. In 2019 he had a three-month trial and was sentenced to life, plus an additional 30 years. He also had to forfeit $12.6 billion.
Take a look at a news report: