Dámaso López reduced his life sentence to 14 years after sinking “Chapo” and accusing Emma Coronel

Dámaso López Núñez, Diploma, reduced his sentence to 14 years, after having been sentenced in 2018 to life imprisonment. With which, the key witness in the trial against Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapo, he obtained the advantage of cooperating so that his companion remains in prison for life.

According to the archives of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), López Núñez has a release date slated for November 8, 2032. It should be noted that in January of last year it was reported a motion to reduce his time behind bars, but since then nothing is known.

Diploma, Guzmán Loera’s main lieutenant was sentenced on November 30, 2018, after pleading guilty to drug trafficking in a court in Alexandria, Virginia. The decision included a $ 25 million embargo.

The compadre of Chapo he had already accepted responsibility for trafficking at least 450 kilograms of cocaine a few months earlier that his grief was read to him.

Lopez Nunez He agreed to allow his defense to strike a deal with the US prosecution. Manuel Retureta, the drug trafficker’s lawyer, asked Judge TS Ellis to have his client held in a southwest prison, which was granted.

According to the BOP, the Diploma He is now locked up in the Wayne County USP Canaan Penitentiary. It is a minimum security detention camp, located northeast of Pennsylvania.

Contacted by Infobae Mexico, Manuel Retureta preferred to reserve any comments on the case..

In the last two days, the name of Dámaso López Núñez has gained in relevance as his testimony played a key role in the charges against his comadre, Emma Coronel Aispuro, who was indicted in the District of Columbia on February 17 and arrested at Washington-Dulles Airport five days later.

Just like the signs on the charge filed a week ago, too the same testimonies of López Núñez are identically, who testified against his compadre on January 22 and 23, 2019 in Room 8D of the Eastern District Court of New York.

Maybe the only new thing is that The North American authorities have decided to hide the identity of their “collaborating witness 1” for a simple formality, but in substance, this is López Núñez. This can be corroborated by press kits on the appearance of the Diploma.

Lopez Nunez He confessed to letters sent by his compadre, through Emma Coronel, with instructions on leading the Sinaloa cartel; He also recounted the discussion of delivering a GPS watch to Chapo and know his exact location in the cell for the escape from the Altiplano in July 2015; at a time, He spoke of the second plan for Guzmán Loera to escape before being extradited to the United States, a project that started in February 2016 but did not materialize.

At paragraph 33 of the indictment filed by the FBI special agent, Eric S. McGuire, “Collaborative Witness 1” is stated to have received $ 100,000 from Emma Coronel acquire land near the Altiplano prison in 2016, exactly what Diploma admitted in 2019, when he said he had taken the same amount, because although he again agreed to collaborate for the escape of his companion, he had no money.

According to the chronicles of his presentation, López Núñez arrived in court in New York on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.

When he took the stand looked at his companion, the Chapo, and hit his chest with the fist of his right hand; questioned by the defense on this gesture of loyalty, replied: “Because I love him“. However, he noted that the circumstances had forced him to testify and decided to think about his family. That’s what he said to justify his betrayal.

Dámaso López Núñez met the Chapo in 1999, when he became deputy director of Puente Grande prison in Jalisco, where the leader of the Sinaloa cartel was in command and who was imprisoned after being arrested in Guatemala in 1993.

López Núñez is originally from Sinaloa, where he worked in the command as chief of auto theft investigations; but already in Puente Grande, he helped Guzmán Loera introduce cellphones, alcohol, cocaine, restaurant food, sex workers, among other whims of the master and lord of the maximum security prison. Before the boss’s escape, which took place on January 18, 2001, the official resigned because he was already suspected of being linked to corruption.

Then i would contact Chapo, would become his lieutenant buy ranches, deliver military bribes and coordinate drug shipments; besides being the godfather of one of the last two twins of the Guzmán Aispuro family. He came to command a private army of up to 100 hired killers, called “Damaso Special Forces”, with whom he intended to win before Los Chapitos, son of Guzmán Loera, but the latter prevailed in the internal leadership and cornered the Damaso.

Diploma he was detained in Mexico City in May 2017 and extradited to the United States in July 2018; four months later, he was sentenced to spend his entire life in prison, but when he testified against his compadre and indicted his comadre, the American authorities determined his release in 2032, when he was about 66 years old. In other words, if he is not a witness against Emma Coronel in exchange for a further reduction in his sentence.

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