'Queen of the Pacific' Arrested on Return to Mexico After US Release EFE
go to original August 21, 2013

Sandra Avila Beltran, known as the 'Queen of the Pacific' because of her alleged links to the drugs trade has been arrested in Mexico. (BBC/ahmet tufan)

MEXICO CITY - A Mexican woman known as the "Queen of the Pacific" was arrested Tuesday on returning to her homeland from the United States, which deported Sandra Avila Beltran after a federal judge sentenced her to time served as an accessory after the fact to drug trafficking.

Avila will face prosecution for money laundering in a case that was suspended when she was extradited to the United States, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said.

Arriving in Mexico City from Texas aboard a biweekly deportee flight, Avila was immediately taken into custody and flown to a prison in the western city of Tepic, where she is to await trial, the AG's office said.

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