Father-in-law of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ given 10 years in prison
Published April 29, 2017
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A Mexican judge has sentenced the father - in - law of drug lord Joaquin “ El Chapo ” Guzman to more than a decade in prison, Mexican officials said Friday.
Ines Coronel Barreras , 49 , was accused of smuggling marijuana to the United States and was arrested in the town of Agua Prieta , which borders the US state of Arizona .
The judge condemned Coronel — the father of Guzman ’ s third wife , former beauty queen Emma Coronel — to 10 years , five months and nine days in prison, in addition to a fine equivalent to 15 , 930 pesos ( 847 dollars) .
The US Treasury Department had designated Coronel as a “key operative ” of the Sinaloa drug cartel prior to his 2013 arrest .
He was detained alongside four other men , with police also seizing two vehicles , four rifles, one gun and 255 kilograms of marijuana .
Guzman — the powerful Sinaloa cartel ’ s notorious leader accused of running one of the world’ s biggest drug empires — is currently detained in Manhattan where he is awaiting trial .
The man who for years was the world ’ s most wanted drug trafficker has pleaded not guilty to a raft of firearms , drug trafficking and conspiracy charges .
He escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 , was re- arrested in 2014 , then escaped a maximum security prison through a tunnel the following year .
He was recaptured in January 2016 and extradited to the United States