El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, is released from US custody

The wife of Mexican crime lord El Chapo has been released from US custody after serving less than two years in prison. 

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, was released from a halfway house, which is part of the Long Beach Residential Reentry Management, on Wednesday afternoon.

She was sentenced to three years in prison in November 2021 for helping her husband in his multi-billion-dollar drug empire. 

In a statement, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said: ‘We can confirm Emma Coronel Aispuro was released from the custody of the FBOP today, September 13, 2023.

‘For privacy, safety, and security, the FBOP does not provide additional information on those who are no longer in our custody.’

Colonel Aispuro, a dual US-Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty to multiple federal drug charges. 

They included conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.

This is a developing story.