Will Mexico's Alleged Drug 'Queen' Sandra Avila Beltran Return to Jail? Richard Fausset and Cecilia Sanchez - The Los Angeles Times
go to original July 30, 2013

Sandra Avila Beltran, dubbed the "Queen of the Pacific," smiles in a picture released by the Mexican attorney general's office after she was arrested by federal agents in 2007. (Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY — Will Mexico’s so-called Queen of the Pacific - the woman accused, but never convicted, of being a Latin American drug kingpin - be going back to a Mexican prison after all?

... In an agreement with U.S. prosecutors, Avila pleaded guilty to one charge of being an accessory to a crime, admitting that she helped her convicted drug-trafficker boyfriend hide from authorities. A Miami judge last week gave her credit for time served, freeing her of the need to do any more time behind bars in the U.S.

Avila is expected to return to Mexico any day now, and initially it appeared that she would return a free woman. A spokesman for the Mexican attorney general’s office told the Los Angeles Times last week that Avila faced no further legal proceedings.

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