| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2008 
Congressmen Call for Beauty Contest Probe
 Gareth Rogers - WalesOnline
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| | In this two image composite, Laura Zuniga is crowned as Miss Sinaloa state at left in the city of Mazatlan, Mexico July 8, 2008 and is shown to the press with unidentified gunmen after her arrest in the city of Zapopan, Mexico Tuesday Dec. 23, 2008. Police said Zuniga who was stopped at a checkpoint, was riding in one of two trucks with seven men, where soldiers found a large stash of weapons and some $53,300 in U.S. currency. (AP) | |
Mexican congressmen called for a government investigation of potential drug cartel ties to the nation’s beauty pageants after a 23-year-old beauty queen was arrested on suspicion of drug and weapons offences.
Congressional leaders warned that cartels may have infiltrated contests to launder money and said a full investigation was needed.
Former preschool teacher Laura Zuniga, named Miss Sinaloa in the drug-plagued northern state’s annual beauty contest, and seven men were arrested on Monday while in a truck filled with weapons.
Investigators say she was dating one of the men, Angel Orlando Garcia, an alleged leader of the powerful Juarez drug cartel. |
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