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A beauty queen has been swept up in a Mexican cartel drugs bust after allegedly using her job as a flight attendant to help move drug money around the US and Mexico. Glenis Zapata, 34, was crowned Miss Indiana Latina in 2011 but she is now facing two counts of money laundering after she was accused of transporting hundreds of thousands of dollars for criminal gangs. The former beauty queen’s money laundering counts stem from a $170,000 (£134,000) cash transport on August 7, 2019, and at least $140,000 (£110,000) on September 10, 2019.

The drugs bust, which was years in the making, saw federal authorities swoop on 18 suspects, including Glenis Zapata, from Lafayette, as part of an operation to take down the main target, Oswaldo Espinosa, listed among the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) most wanted. The latest arrests in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces’ operation to take down Oswaldo Espinosa’s network saw Zapata, along with two bank tellers – Zapata’s sister, Ilenis Zapata and Georgina Banuelos being read their rights. READ MORE: Inside America's notorious neighbourhood with open drug use where kids escorted through streets An Indiana beauty queen has been caught in a cartel drug bust accused of using her job as a flight attendant to smuggle drug money ( Image: Miss Indiana Latina/Facebook) The latest federal indictment filed on May 16, describes how US streets were flooded with thousands of kilograms of cocaine by a multi-million dollar,.



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