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Mexico beauty queen caught in anti-drug raid [stopped at checkpoint]
Reuters ^
| Dec. 23, 2008
| Robin Emmott
Posted on 12/23/2008 1:34:25 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY - A Mexican beauty queen and international pageant winner has been detained by police along with suspected drug traffickers who had assault rifles and cash.
Laura Zuniga, the 23-year-old Miss Sinaloa from the marijuana-producing Mexican state, was held with seven men at a military checkpoint in Guadalajara, police said on Tuesday.
"She is the beauty queen of Sinaloa and was aboard an SUV with the weapons and several of the men," said a police spokesman from western Jalisco state, home to Guadalajara.
The spokesman said police and soldiers at the checkpoint on the outskirts of Mexico's second-biggest city were tipped off that traffickers were moving through the area Monday night.
"No one expected this young woman to be aboard, along with more than a dozen cell phones, lots of cash, pistols, bullets and two rifles," the spokesman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; drugs; gunrunners; illegal; mexican; mexico; naughtyteacher; notguiltyatall; sonotguilty; teacher; wod
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To: nomorelurker
Did the call go out to be on the lookout for a beautiful young woman? Well Duh!
To: SwinneySwitch
NOT GUILTY! “She was just hitching a ride your Honor.”
To: SwinneySwitch
If she was blonde, it would be story #1 on Fox News.
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posted on
12/23/2008 2:45:29 PM PST
by
Zathras
To: SwinneySwitch
To: Mojave
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posted on
12/23/2008 2:53:52 PM PST
by
devane617
(...And to the Republic For Which It Stood...)
To: Zathras
If she was blonde, it would be story #1 on Fox News.Only if she's missing.
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posted on
12/23/2008 2:53:58 PM PST
by
03A3
To: Mojave
Couldn’t possibly be guilty. No place to hide enough contraband.
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posted on
12/23/2008 2:55:00 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
To: mylife
"She is the beauty queen of Sinaloa and was aboard an SUV with the weapons and several of the men," Huh?
It said, "SHE IS THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF SINALOA AND WAS ABOARD AN SUV WITH THE WEAPONS AND SEVERAL OF THE MEN,"
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:07:20 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: Ken H
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:10:31 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
She was apparently a passenger in the SUV that was stopped at a checkpoint.
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:17:15 PM PST
by
Ken H
if only every illegal alien looked like this...
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:27:08 PM PST
by
isom35
To: Republican Party Reptile
That, or she was taken as a hostage to try to ensure the drugs got across. Look like a beauty and her body guards, instead of drug smugglers with guns.
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:29:22 PM PST
by
tbw2
(Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
To: isom35
If so, Mexico would be the 51 state pretty soon. May end up as one anyway.
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:31:31 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: Mojave
Not guilty, but needs close supervision.
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:32:42 PM PST
by
nufsed
To: SwinneySwitch
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:36:10 PM PST
by
Bon mots
To: stockpirate
Not so fast, I think we need to conduct a thorough frisking before we release her!
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:41:16 PM PST
by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
To: isom35
Just doing the jobs that Americans won't? :)
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:45:14 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: SwinneySwitch
Your Honor, this woman is GUILTY!
...of stealing my heart!
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posted on
12/23/2008 3:46:06 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: FormerLib
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posted on
12/23/2008 4:14:35 PM PST
by
stockpirate
(ACORN voter fraud, illegal campaign donations, COLB, where is the conservative anger?)
To: MahatmaGandu
(BBC)
Laura Zuniga (centre) was paraded in handcuffs along with fellow detainees
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posted on
12/23/2008 4:49:34 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(..but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. John 3:19 NIV)
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