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She Instagrammed her exotic drug-smuggling vacation. Now ‘Cocaine Babe’ is going to prison.
Washington Post ^ | April 18 at 9:27 AM | by Lindsey Bever

Posted on 04/18/2018 8:40:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A Canadian woman who tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Australia has been convicted and sentenced to eight years behind bars.

Melina Roberge, 24, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to smuggling 95 kilos (209 pounds) of the drug into the Sydney Harbour in 2016, following an exotic weeks-long cruise that she and an accomplice documented on social media.

Roberge and her accomplice, Isabelle Lagace, had turned their Instagram accounts into travel diaries in the summer of 2016, posting glamorous photos and boasting about their intercontinental adventures on the MS Sea Princess, a cruise ship that docked in 17 ports in 11 countries before it finally stopped in Australia.

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Roberge — who became known as “Cocaine Babe” in headlines — will serve at least four years and nine months, without eligibility for parole; she will eventually be deported to her home country, the Associated Press reported.

“She was seduced by lifestyle and the opportunity to post glamorous Instagram photos from around the world,” Judge Kate Traill said in New South Wales state District Court, according to the AP.

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Article doesn't say where she got the cocaine or how she got it onto the cruise ship.
1 posted on 04/18/2018 8:40:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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If you were doing something illegal; why would put it on social media?


2 posted on 04/18/2018 8:45:48 AM PDT by Jean2
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To: BenLurkin

Doesn’t it hint that her Sugar Daddy was behind all this?


3 posted on 04/18/2018 8:47:10 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: BenLurkin

I was in love with a girl on cocaine
She had everything going but a brain
We’d talk endlessly for hours
But by morning it’d go sour
I was in love with a girl on cocaine

-Tom Petty


4 posted on 04/18/2018 8:47:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

“Melina Roberge, 23, and Andre Tamine, 64, tried to sneak four suitcases of cocaine from Britain to Australia in a plot cooked up with “cocaine babe” Lagace.

The pair changed their pleas to guilty after the reckless ruse sentenced the 29-year-old adult actress to four and a half years in prison.

Isabelle admitted taking the class A drug on board the £11,000-per-head MS Sea Princess and claimed she tried to smuggle the drug into Sydney after she was given an ultimatum about clearing a £14,266 debt to an unnamed person.

In June, Lagace and Roberge boarded the luxury cruise ship in Southampton and began to document their journey across the US, South America and Pacific with dozens of bikini-clad Instagram posts.”


5 posted on 04/18/2018 8:47:28 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Jean2

You can’t fix stupid.


6 posted on 04/18/2018 8:47:30 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: BenLurkin

Wow, she is really hot. Wonder how she’ll be in 8 years.


7 posted on 04/18/2018 8:47:52 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: Jean2

Lots of truly stupid people out there. Most are into ego boosting social media.


8 posted on 04/18/2018 8:48:10 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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p05mp05m

Not Guilty.

9 posted on 04/18/2018 8:48:32 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: BenLurkin; Lazamataz

The question is whether Laz would hit it.


10 posted on 04/18/2018 8:48:43 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

The cocaine-smuggling guilty criminals:



11 posted on 04/18/2018 8:49:17 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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Lucky for this stupid woman they didn't make a stop in Malaysia or Singapore.
12 posted on 04/18/2018 8:49:44 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: MNDude

Not. Hot.


13 posted on 04/18/2018 8:50:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Blue Jays

The photos say “Not Guilty”. The judge, on the other hand, said the opposite.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


14 posted on 04/18/2018 8:51:09 AM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: BenLurkin

209 lbs of coke? And you’d whisper a word about that? She’s lucky to get 8 years. That’s worth 20.


15 posted on 04/18/2018 8:51:09 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: Jean2

“If you were doing something illegal; why would put it on social media?”

A stupid “I can do anything I want” urge overtakes any reasoning ability such idiots may possess.


16 posted on 04/18/2018 8:51:15 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Snickering Hound

The lesbos in prison will be falling all over themselves to get to her.


17 posted on 04/18/2018 8:51:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Army Air Corps

You must be joking surely.


18 posted on 04/18/2018 8:52:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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8 years in a leisurely establishment. Probably a ‘human rights violation’ if it didn’t included a spa/salon. Hardly a deterrent.


19 posted on 04/18/2018 8:52:44 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: Snickering Hound

Not guilty, and clearly the right kind, although maybe a little to much, of stupid.


20 posted on 04/18/2018 8:55:56 AM PDT by D Rider
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