The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been released from federal custody after serving a three-year sentence for her involvement in running his multi-billion-dollar criminal organization, as confirmed by the federal Bureau of Prisons on Wednesday.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, who entered a guilty plea in 2021 for three federal offenses as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, was transferred from a Texas prison to a California halfway house prior to her release. She will now undergo four years of supervised release.

During her sentencing, Coronel Aispuro expressed genuine remorse for any harm caused, having pleaded guilty to charges that included money laundering conspiracy and engaging in transactions with a foreign narcotics trafficker.

Prosecutors have also revealed that she assisted her husband in planning a daring escape in 2015, involving a tunnel dug beneath a Mexican prison, the Associated Press reported.

She smuggled to him a GPS watch disguised as a food item, which aided the tunnel diggers in locating and reaching him.

El Chapo, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was subsequently recaptured the following year and sentenced to life imprisonment in a U.S. prison in 2019 for his involvement in a massive drug conspiracy that unleashed violence and chaos over more than two decades.

He contended that his trial in New York was unfair and asserted that his case was tainted.

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