Sandra Avila Beltran, Mexican Cartel 'Queen' Pleads Guilty in US KpopStarz
go to original April 25, 2013

A Sept. 28, 2007 file photo released by the Mexican Attorney General's Office shows Sandra Avila Beltran, dubbed the Queen of the Pacific, after she was arrested by federal agents outside a restaurant in southern Mexico City. Mexican officials extradited Avila to the United States on Thursday Aug. 9, 2012. (Mexican Attorney General's Office/Getty Images)

A Mexican drug cartel "queen" pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court in Miami to a drug trafficking charge.  Cartel "queen" Sandra Avila Beltran has pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact in a drug trafficking cartel.

Sandra Avila Beltran, 52, the Mexican woman who was once known as "La Reina del Pacífico" or "Queen of the Pacific", has admitted her role in aiding Colombian and Mexican drug cartels. She has admitted she provided money to Juan Diego Espinosa Ramirez, once her boyfriend and former Colombian drug lord, in order to help him avoid arrest.

Avila admitted her role in a statement that has been filed in federal court. It reads that she gave Espinosa money "with the intention of preventing or hindering his arrest for his drug trafficking crimes" between 2002 and 2004.

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