A Guatemalan drug trafficker known as “the Queen of the South” was sentenced in a US federal court on Tuesday but the judge put her case and its outcome under seal for five years, her lawyer said.
Marllory Chacon Rossell surrendered to US authorities last year.
She is reported to be helping them with key information.
In return, the judge agreed to keep her sentence and release date under seal for five years for her safety.
Prosecutors agreed in December to recommend that Rossell should serve less than a 10-year sentence in return for pleading guilty.
The US Treasury Department described her as “one of the most prolific narcotics traffickers in Central America”.
Based in Guatemala but also operating in Honduras and Panama, Rossell’s organisation supplied cocaine shipments to Mexican drug enterprises including Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel.
Her organisation was also believed to have laundered tens of millions of US dollars in drugs proceeds each month, making her the most active money launderer in Guatemala.
Many drug organisations in Latin America employ women at most levels of their criminal activities but it is rare for one to be headed by a woman.
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The only time a judge does this is when the defendant has cooperated significantly with the prosecution and is going into witness protection. In other words this 81tch ratted out her cohorts.
Second “if” she goes to prison it will be under an alias to protect her and further the federal system has FINITE sentencing.
There is NO indefinative sentencing so “10 to life” is NOT a sentence in the federal sentence.