Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's father-in-law will most likely be serving his entire 10-year sentence after a court panel, citing behavioral issues, rejected his bid for early release.
Inés Coronel, whose daughter Emma Coronel is in prison awaiting sentencing in the United States, has been petitioning Mexican courts for early release since March 2019. However, his legal staff has been unable to convince courts to let him walk out of a Mexico prison.
Mexican digital news outlet La Silla Rota first reported on Inés Coronel's failed bid for release Thursday.
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Inés Coronel, whose daughter Emma Coronel is married to Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, has filed several petitions for an early release after he was sentenced by a Mexican court in April 2017 to 10 years and five months in prison for illegal possession of firearms and smuggling drugs to the Unites States
Emma Coronel is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in June to charges in the U.S. and admitting that she helped her husband, El Chapo, run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán is serving a life sentence in the United States
Coronel, a 53-year-old former high-ranking leader within El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested April 30, 2013 at a home in the northern border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, across from Douglas, Arizona.
He was found guilty of illegal possession of firearms and smuggling drugs to the United States. Coronel was sentenced on April 28, 2017 to 10 years and five months in prison. He also was ordered to pay a $900 fine.
Attempts to have the sentence reduced have failed on several occasions.
According to legal documents reviewed by La Silla Rota, Coronel's legal team applied for his discharge March 12, 2019, citing a 'partial remission of the sentence, preparatory release and conditional release.'
However, the court shot down the request on February 19, 2020, ruling that Coronel 'incurred in acts and conduct contrary to morals or good customs' during an incident at the prison on June 20, 2015.
The court also cited items found in Coronel's prison cell on July 19, 2017 that jeopardized the 'security of the prison and/or the life of a person' and 'malicious behaviors that affect that operation of services or the provision of supplies in the penitentiary.'
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Inés Coronel is a former operative within the Sinaloa Cartel, co-founded by his son-in-law, El Chapo's. Coronel, the father of Emma Coronel, El Chapo's wife, was arrested and found guilty of illegal possession of firearms and smuggling drugs to the United States, and
