The United States on 20 August 2013 deported Sandra Avila Beltran (52), a
Mexican drug smuggler also known as Queen of the Pacific to the Mexican
authorities after completion of her jail term in the country. She has
been deported to Mexico, where she was taken into custody to face
separate charges of money laundering. By now she, has served prison
terms in Mexico and US.
About Sandra Avila Beltran
Sandra
Avila Beltran was arrested in 2007 at Mexico and extradited to US in
August 2012. She was sentenced for 70 months in prison by a Florida
Judge after she admitted that she provided money to a former Colombian
drug lord to help him in avoiding the arrest.
She is the niece
of the godfather of the Mexican drug trade, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo,
who is serving a 40-year sentence in a Mexican prison for the murder of
a US drug-enforcement agent. She has been accused of creating routes
for drug smuggling in the Pacific coast into California. The Mexican
prosecutors have also accused her for playing major role creation of
Sinaloa Cartel country's most powerful criminal organisations in the
1990s.
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