INQUIRER.net: Drug ‘Queen of the Pacific’ returns to Mexico

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Drug 'Queen of the Pacific' returns to Mexico Aug 20th 2013, 23:10 MEXICO CITY—A Mexican woman known as the "Queen of the Pacific" for her links to drug trafficking returned home Tuesday to face money laundering charges after the United States deported her. Sandra Avila Beltran, who was convicted by a US court for helping a drug lord evade arrest, stepped off an airplane in handcuffs after landing in Mexico City on a special US flight that repatriates migrants, TV footage showed. The dark-haired woman, born in 1960, made headlines by flashing a smile to news cameras following her first arrest in 2007. She inspired a soap opera and got her nickname from a Mexican drug ballad, known as a narcocorrido. A Mexican government official, who requ... Keep on reading: Drug ‘Queen of the Pacific’ returns to Mexico Media files: Sandra-Avila-Beltran.jpg (image/jpeg)

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