A Colombian beauty pageant contestant traveling to China was arrested when police found drugs hidden in her laptop in Guangzhou's Baiyun Airport.
Police reported that they found drugs hidden on Juliana Lopez when she entered the country on July 18. She has not had contact with her family but authorities have confirmed that she is in custody.
If Lopez is convicted in China, she could face the death penalty.
Lopez traveled to China to purchase clothes and shoes in China for her shop in Colombia.
Colombian media has picked up the story and has interviewed Lopez's family and friends, trying to figure out why the beautiful, wealthy model would try to smuggle drugs into China.
Lopez lived in Medellin, Colombia and studied accounting in university. She also played in an amateur football league in the city. Her friend told Colombian media that, “She is a good girl, good student, athlete and model.”
“It is hard to imagine she would do such a thing because she did not need any money,” said Lopez's uncle. “She had a bright future and was paying her own way through school through modeling and working at a local TV station.” Lopez was to compete in the Miss World Medellin competition this week.
138 Colombians have been detained in China, 90% on drug trafficking charges.
Source: ifeng.com
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Poison pusher. You get what you deserve. At least if it's heroin. The news reporting is always short on details here. Why are all stories only a paragraph?
Aug 06, 2015 07:43 Report Abuse
But she's beautiful! How can this be possible? China knows that the beautiful belong to the fortunate upper class. This definitely warrants a news article, unlike all the uggo's on death row. Being beautiful is a Chinese girl's most valued skill. It doesn't matter that she's otherwise unskilled, perhaps trying her hand as a beauty pageant contestant, a drug smuggler, whatever makes easy money. Nothing she can DO will undo the reality that she IS beautiful. She belongs with some rich tuhao, not on death row. That isn't who she IS. Static view of reality at its finest.
Aug 05, 2015 15:22 Report Abuse
you never know what people can do for money. we all see these kind of things happen everyday but i think the girl must have been pushed or threatened to do so. maybe at the expense of her winning miss world or something we cannot yet figure...lets just wish her well
Aug 05, 2015 09:37 Report Abuse
"Is this your laptop?" "Yes it is." "It's full of drugs. You are under arrest." "Oh no, it must have been tampered with. Those drugs aren't mine." Explain to me how you can still believe she was tricked.
Aug 05, 2015 15:27 Report Abuse
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