<p>Angie Sanclemente Valencia had been hiding out in Buenos Aires since December, when airport police caught a 21-year-old Argentine woman with 55 kg of cocaine in her baggage boarding a flight to Cancun. That led to arrests of six other alleged gang members who fingered Colombia’s former “coffee queen” as a ringleader.<br /><br />Argentina’s media quickly dubbed Sanclemente the “Narco Queen,” but two officials involved in the case said that her specific role in the smuggling organisation has not been established.<br /><br />“When they organised the trafficking of cocaine to Mexico, she participated in the meetings,” said one of the sources.<br /><br />Police were able to determine Sanclemente’s identity because she had made quite an impression upon her arrival in Argentina, flying first class with a Pomeranian dog, the other official said. The 30-year-old model was captured on Wednesday in a hostel for foreigners in the fashionable Palermo neighbourhood.<br /><br />“She is no drug trafficker, nor is she the queen of cocaine,” her mother Jeannette Valencia declared after the arrest.<br /><br />“There are bad intentions — a plot against her. She will prove her innocence,” Valencia told reporters.</p>
<p>Angie Sanclemente Valencia had been hiding out in Buenos Aires since December, when airport police caught a 21-year-old Argentine woman with 55 kg of cocaine in her baggage boarding a flight to Cancun. That led to arrests of six other alleged gang members who fingered Colombia’s former “coffee queen” as a ringleader.<br /><br />Argentina’s media quickly dubbed Sanclemente the “Narco Queen,” but two officials involved in the case said that her specific role in the smuggling organisation has not been established.<br /><br />“When they organised the trafficking of cocaine to Mexico, she participated in the meetings,” said one of the sources.<br /><br />Police were able to determine Sanclemente’s identity because she had made quite an impression upon her arrival in Argentina, flying first class with a Pomeranian dog, the other official said. The 30-year-old model was captured on Wednesday in a hostel for foreigners in the fashionable Palermo neighbourhood.<br /><br />“She is no drug trafficker, nor is she the queen of cocaine,” her mother Jeannette Valencia declared after the arrest.<br /><br />“There are bad intentions — a plot against her. She will prove her innocence,” Valencia told reporters.</p>
