Not Guilty.
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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If you were doing something illegal; why would put it on social media?
Doesn’t it hint that her Sugar Daddy was behind all this?
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
“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.”
You can’t fix stupid.
Wow, she is really hot. Wonder how she’ll be in 8 years.
Lots of truly stupid people out there. Most are into ego boosting social media.
Not Guilty.
The question is whether Laz would hit it.
Not. Hot.
The photos say “Not Guilty”. The judge, on the other hand, said the opposite.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
209 lbs of coke? And you’d whisper a word about that? She’s lucky to get 8 years. That’s worth 20.
“If you were doing something illegal; why would put it on social media?”
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A stupid “I can do anything I want” urge overtakes any reasoning ability such idiots may possess.
The lesbos in prison will be falling all over themselves to get to her.
You must be joking surely.
8 years in a leisurely establishment. Probably a ‘human rights violation’ if it didn’t included a spa/salon. Hardly a deterrent.
Not guilty, and clearly the right kind, although maybe a little to much, of stupid.
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