Drug war news: Getting creative to smuggle & sell cocaine
Take a look at some recent odd headlines about drug dealing:
One a more serious note, the "Queen of the Pacific" doesn't seem to be coming to the U.S. anytime soon. A Mexican federl court panel ruled the alleged drug trafficker can't be extradited to the U.S. on a charge for which she was acquitted in Mexico, reports the AP.
Called the Underworld Queenpin by the Daily Beast and the Glamorous Gangster by ABC, Sandra Avila Beltran is the niece of the "godfather" of Mexican drug smuggling and a love interest of a Colombian trafficker. She was arrested in 2007, but was acquitted in December of drug-trafficking, money-laundering and organized-crime charges. She still faces an unrelated money-laundering charge.
This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.
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