Former US beauty queen accused of aiding smugglers
A former beauty queen from the US state of Indiana was accused of aiding smugglers of a Mexican drug cartel. About it reports USA Today.
Glenys Zapata, 34, who won the Miss Indiana Latina pageant in 2011, worked as a flight attendant. According to investigators, during work flights the woman transported money received by smugglers for drugs. She helped transport cash from the US Midwest, where Indiana is located, to the South and Mexico.
Prosecutors accused Zapata of collaborating with a Mexican criminal gang led by Osvaldo Espinosa. By data Law and Crime, members of the group transported tens of millions of dollars (hundreds of millions of rubles) from 2018 to 2023. During this period, they managed to illegally sell thousands of kilograms of cocaine. They used trucks and planes to transport money.
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Court documents allege that drug traffickers operated throughout the United States. They used warehouses, garages, apartments and offices to collect and store cash. The criminals kept ledgers to track all drug payments. They also used special phones and mobile applications that encrypted all communications to avoid the attention of law enforcement.
The charges also include two bank employees, one of whom, as writes ABC Chicago, is Glenys Zapata’s sister, 33-year-old Ilenis Zapata.
Earlier it was reported that in Ecuador, bandits brutally dealt with a beauty queen. The men figured out the model’s location from a photograph of an octopus dish that she posted on social networks.
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