Purported drug cartel operator Sandra Avila Beltran, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," was returned to Mexico from the U.S. on Tuesday and quickly taken to prison to face money-laundering charges.

Sandra Avila Beltran, dubbed the Queen of the Pacific and reputed to play a key role in shipping cocaine from Colombia to Mexico for the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested outside a restaurant in the ...

Sandra’s reign came to a halt in 2007 when she was arrested alongside her partner, Colombian Juan Diego Espinosa, “El Tigre,” for trafficking nine tons of cocaine. She was extradited to the United ...

MEXICO CITY — Blessed with charm and good looks, Sandra Avila Beltran is enthralling Mexico. Not as a beauty queen, but as an alleged drug lord, and the story of her arrest and possible ...

15 Mexican drug lord Sandra Ávila Beltrán was arrested in 2007 on charges of organised crime and conspiracy to traffic drugs ITALIAN MAFIA ...

Sandra Avila Beltran, 52, a convicted aggravated felon, is watched over by members of the Ministerial Federal Police after her arrival at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City August ...

A Mexican woman who served time in jail for her links to drug trafficking is suing Netflix and TV channel Telemundo. Sandra Ávila Beltrán argues that the TV series Queen of the South is based on ...

Sandra Avila Beltran has filed a claim with Mexico’s intellectual property agency alleging that the character Teresa Mendoza in “La Reina del Sur” (Queen of the South) is inspired by her own ...

In 2016, authorities arrested Clara Elena Laborín, a former beauty queen from Sonora state who had married Héctor Beltrán Leyva, El Chapo’s former partner in the Sinaloa cartel.

In this photo released by Mexico's Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Sandra Avila Beltran, also known as the "Queen of the Pacific," smiles for a police mug shot on the day of her arrest in ...

(Image: Getty) Queen of the South: Camila Vargas was arrested like Sandra avila Beltran was in real life. (Image: USA Network) ...

On Oct. 2, 2015, Sean Penn flew to Mexico for what could have been the most disastrous and even deadly night of his life. The actor had been invited to a sit-down with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the ...