La Reina del Pacífico

La Reina del Pacífico Sandra Ávila Beltrán, widely known as "La Reina del Pacífico," was convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering offenses related to her involvement in facilitating cocaine shipments through a network linking the Sinaloa Cartel and Colombian trafficking organizations. She was arrested in Mexico City in 2007 following a high-profile investigation and extradited to the United States in 2012, where she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to time served, being released in 2013. Her case drew significant public attention as a prominent example of a woman in a leadership-adjacent role within Mexican drug trafficking.