Emma Coronel Aispuro, Wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Waived his right to a preliminary hearing and has not yet pleaded guilty to the charges against him.
Colonel Aispuro, 31, faces a minimum of 10 years and a maximum life sentence in the United States for his involvement in drug trafficking in the United States. Sinaloa Cartel led by her husband, Judge Robin Meriweather of the Federal Court for the District of Columbia said in February.
The magistrate declared on February 23 that he could also be fined $ 10 million.
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The wife of “El Chapo”, the drug trafficker extradited to United States in 2017, she was arrested at Dulles International Airport on the outskirts of Washington. Two years earlier, her husband had been found guilty in New York of sending tons of drugs to the United States for more than 25 years.
Colonel attended the trial of “El Chapo” almost daily, who since his sentence in July 2019 has been imprisoned for life in the ADX maximum security prison in Colorado.
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Although waiving a preliminary hearing is not unusual, Colonel faces charges for crimes committed from 2011 to January 2017 in “Mexico and Elsewhere,” according to the criminal complaint that prompted his arrest warrant.
Disclosures of her arrest have caused controversy, as documents from Mexican and U.S. authorities showed Coronel’s failed attempt for a last and third escape from her husband, “El Chapo,” following her arrest in 2016. .
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