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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: from occupied ga

You and me both.


41 posted on 04/18/2018 10:16:33 AM PDT by Jean2
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I would say the cover is wrong. Looks like they locked up two broads...


42 posted on 04/18/2018 10:27:32 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: BenLurkin

Get an eye exam.


43 posted on 04/18/2018 10:46:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Snickering Hound

I suspect they didn’t find all the contraband. I’m going to have to insist on frisking her for a few hours just to make sure.


44 posted on 04/18/2018 10:47:38 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dfwgator

I’s in love with a girl who drank coffee
There was times when I couldn’t keep her off me
That caffeine got her going
But her ugly side was showing
I’s in love with a girl who drank coffee

- Also Tom Petty


45 posted on 04/18/2018 10:48:49 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I was thinking the same thing.


46 posted on 04/18/2018 10:51:34 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: T-Bone Texan

Might as well go ahead and post the whole song...

Girl on LSD - Tom Petty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gyHzqKZRU


47 posted on 04/18/2018 10:54:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin
In their luggage...and won't be the first 'airhead' who think they can just throw the stuff in a suitcase and go....


48 posted on 04/18/2018 10:57:21 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Police with sniffer dogs found 77 pounds of cocaine in the cabin in their suitcases..what idiots.


49 posted on 04/18/2018 10:59:04 AM PDT by caww
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To: Paladin2

Melina Roberge was for a brief interval a costar on short films featuring Stormy Danielle. After she became 16 Melina learned that taking cruises and muling drugs was easier and more profitable.

Ms Danielle refused to respond to repeated requests for comment


50 posted on 04/18/2018 11:01:37 AM PDT by bert (RE)
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To: Boogieman

Isabelle Lagace was a porn star...graduated to Drug Mule......they both worked as ‘escorts’ who slept with the men the sugar daddy introduced them to.

So bottom Line were they were hookers pushing drugs. As if that’s anything new?


51 posted on 04/18/2018 11:07:50 AM PDT by caww
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To: namvolunteer

Ouch!


52 posted on 04/18/2018 11:31:54 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Boogieman

She’ll still be hot after eight years in prison? Guess we’ll find out.


53 posted on 04/18/2018 11:37:39 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: rjsimmon

Well playe. Broads abroad. I am betting no millenial has ever heard the word broad, gal, or dame used to refer to a woman.


54 posted on 04/18/2018 11:57:55 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: Army Air Corps
The question is whether Laz would hit it.

It's easier to get the postcard-sized list of who Laz wouldn't hit.

55 posted on 04/18/2018 2:33:53 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

I was not aware that the “No Hit” list was that extensive.


56 posted on 04/18/2018 2:35:55 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

They are lucky that they didn’t make a stop in Singapore.


57 posted on 04/18/2018 2:40:24 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I bet I know how she paid for lots of drugs...


58 posted on 04/18/2018 2:41:24 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: BenLurkin

I can’t imagine the kind of poisonous insects roam freely in an Australian prison..


59 posted on 04/18/2018 2:57:43 PM PDT by shotgun
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