She managed to elude authorities for years, despite living a glamorous life and rising to the top of Mexico’s macho drug world. In the end, it was the U.S. justice system that finally nailed a ...

Alleged drug trafficker, Sandra Avila Beltrán, also known as the “Queen of the Pacific” will not be able to return to the U.S. for a charge in which she was acquitted in Mexico for. In a separate ...

A Mexican woman known as the "Queen of the Pacific," who had been sentenced to 70 months in prison in Miami as a convicted accessory to drug traffickers, was deported to Mexico Tuesday, officials said ...

The Miami-based attorney who represented Sandra Avila Beltrán – the flirtatious vixen believed to have run part of the Sinaloa cartel who was released from prison over the weekend by a Mexican judge – ...

(AP) MEXICO CITY - A panel of Mexican judges on Thursday agreed to the extradition of a suspected drug trafficker known as the "Queen of the Pacific," who is wanted in the United States on ...

Sandra Avila Beltrán, a Mexican woman known as a drug cartel "Queen," pled guilty to charges related to a major cocaine trafficking case on Tuesday. BBC reports Avila, who is known as "Queen of the ...

Sandra Avila Beltran, also known as the "Queen of the Pacific," smiles for a police mug shot on the day of her arrest. Associated Press (Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review) MEXICO CITY – Blessed ...

Mexico City, Feb 9 (EFE).Mexico City, Feb 9 (EFE). — After spending eight years in prisons in the United States and Mexico, Mexican drug trafficker Sandra Avila Beltran, popularly known as the ‘Queen ...

Written by CBS News deputy foreign editor Ana Real and 60 Minutes associate producer Anya Bourg. Sandra Avila Beltran came to our attention in September 2007 when she was arrested by the Mexican ...

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — Purported drug cartel operator Sandra Avila Beltran, known as the “Queen of the Pacific,” was returned to Mexico from the U.S. on Tuesday and quickly taken to prison to face ...

Alleged drug 'queenpin' extradited from Mexico. Aug. 10, 2012 — -- The alleged "queenpin" of Mexico's West Coast drug trade, once celebrated in song as the "Queen of the Pacific," appeared in a U ...

Sandra Avila Beltran, known as the “Queen of the Pacific” for alleged drug dealings, was deported Tuesday from the United States to Mexico, where she will face money-laundering charges, the third set ...