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

[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.

[Jean2]

You and me both.

[rjsimmon]

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

[Boogieman]

Get an eye exam.

[Boogieman]

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.

[T-Bone Texan]

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

[Sawdring]

I was thinking the same thing.

[dfwgator]

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

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

[caww]

In their luggage...and won't be the first 'airhead' who think they can just throw the stuff in a suitcase and go....

[caww]

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

[bert]

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

[caww]

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?

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Ouch!

[BenLurkin]

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

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

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

[TangoLimaSierra]

The question is whether Laz would hit it.

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

[Army Air Corps]

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

[Kickass Conservative]

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

[PLMerite]

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

[shotgun]

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