00:00 Emma Coronel, the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, will
00:09 be freed in Los Angeles on Wednesday following her arrest in 2021 on drug trafficking charges.
00:16 Former beauty queen and dual US-Mexico citizen Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested in 2021
00:24 for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine.
00:30 She is being held at Long Beach Residential Reentry Management in California at present,
00:37 according to US Bureau of Prisons records.
00:41 Prosecutors had initially asked for a four-year sentence.
00:44 However, US District Judge Rudolph Contreras said that a three-year term was enough considering
00:51 Emma's role was only a small piece of a massive organisation.
00:56 She also admitted to acting as a courier between Guzman, who led the cartel, and other organisation
01:01 members while he was being held in Mexico's Alto Plano prison after his 2014 arrest.
01:08 The Bureau of Prisons said on its website that it would release Coronel on Wednesday
01:13 from a low-security confinement institution in Los Angeles without giving further details.
01:18 Coronel's lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
01:22 It is not clear whether she faces charges for drug trafficking or other crimes inside
01:27 Mexico.
01:28 Coronel was also given a further two years of supervised release.
01:33 She has two daughters with Guzman, whom she met when she was Yahoo Beauty Queen and married
01:38 in 2007 at age 18.
01:40 Meanwhile, El Chapo is serving a life sentence in the US after being convicted on murder
01:46 conspiracy and drug charges in February 2019.
01:50 He is serving his time in the infamous United States Penitentiary Florence, a supermax federal
01:55 prison in Colorado.
01:57 El Chapo was found guilty of running the Sinaloa Cartel, an industrial-sized drug trafficking
02:03 operation.
02:04 It is known as one of the world's largest, barbaric and most profitable drug smuggling
02:09 organisations.
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