Wife of Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" released from prison
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman, was released from prison on Wednesday. She pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges in 2021.
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman, was released from prison on Wednesday. She pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges in 2021.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has been released from a California prison after serving a three-year sentence for helping to run Guzman's drug empire. "El Chapo" himself is serving a life sentence in the U.S.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman wrote a letter to the judge who oversaw his case, months after he sent the president of Mexico an "SOS," alleging "psychological torment" at the supermax Colorado prison where he is serving a life sentence.
Emma Coronel Aispuro is scheduled to be released in mid-September, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 36, is the fourth member of Los Chapitos, the nickname given to the sons of "El Chapo" who allegedly run a powerful faction of his drug empire.
The sons of Guzmán said "we have never produced, manufactured or commercialized fentanyl nor any of its derivatives," the letter said.
The indictment details the brutal methods of torture and executions used by the cartel to extend power and intimidate enemies.
He called the Sinaloa investigation "abusive, arrogant interference that should not be accepted under any circumstances."
The drug lord's four sons, who are known as the Chapitos, have earned a reputation as the more violent and aggressive faction of the cartel.
The boy is accused of riding up on a motorcycle and opening fire on a family having a party in a low-income Mexico City suburb.
Nichols, now 40, moved with his mother to Las Vegas after she divorced Terry Nichols years before the April 1995 bombing that killed 168 people.
Ovidio Guzman has allegedly helped to run his father's infamous Sinaloa cartel since El Chapo was handed over to the U.S. in 2017.
Felipe Cabrera Sarabia said during a hearing that he had "always made a living as a cattle rancher."
The Sinaloa cartel founder says he's suffering "psychological torment" in a prison dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."
Genaro García Luna faces charges for allegedly accepting millions in bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel to allow the organization to operate in Mexico.
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Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Just like his father, he is an alleged drug trafficker who was wanted by the United States. Errol Barnett has more.
Ovidio Guzmán, the son of infamous Mexican drug lord ""El Chapo,"" was arrested Thursday in a military raid in Mexico. Guzman is wanted by the U.S. for alleged drug trafficking.
Ovidio Guzmán, son of the imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States.
The victims were returning home from a children's birthday party when they were mistakenly targeted and killed, prosecutors said.
Businesses were burned and a local radio presenter was among those killed, authorities and witnesses said.
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