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They accuse a mother of using her children as "mules" to bring fentanyl in a makeup box to the children's father

2022-11-23T12:25:39.296Z


Magdalena Silva Banuelos allegedly sent her children on a plane from New Mexico to Dallas with the drugs. According to text messages she found to police, she had warned him: "You could overdose. Don't die on the kitchen floor."


An Albuquerque, New Mexico, woman was accused of using her two underage children as "mules" to send fentanyl to her boyfriend and father of the children, who died of an overdose, the US Department of Justice said Tuesday. Joined.

Magdalena Silva Banuelos, 46, was charged with distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.

If she is found guilty,

she could face up to 20 years in prison.

On May 31, Banuelos allegedly flew his children, ages 8 and 10, from Albuquerque to Dallas, Texas, to visit the children's father, according to the indictment.

The authorities added that Bañuelos and his partner had an unstable relationship.


A fentanyl pill in a plastic bag.

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Surveillance video from Dallas Love Field Airport caught the father picking up the children at the gate, going through their luggage and then going into the airport bathroom around 10:26 p.m.

Minutes later

, the man overdosed on fentanyl

and died in front of his children.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin.

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Investigators recovered a makeup container containing more than one gram of fentanyl in the bathroom.

They also found text messages from the couple, suggesting that Silva knew the victim planned to use fentanyl and was aware of the risk it posed.

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"Hey, you gotta be careful," she wrote.

He replied, "Yes, ma'am. Very slow and relaxed."

"Just one and wait, you'll see. Just one," the woman continued.

"OK. Fine. I'll do it," he replied.

"No fainting in the kitchen. Seriously, you can overdose.

Don't die on the kitchen floor,

" Bañuelos warned his partner.

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DEA agent Guy Baker said Silva's actions "put the lives of his minor children at risk by concealing a highly potent drug in their luggage during a flight."

"This arrest and detention is yet another example of the devastation that fentanyl continues to wreak on families across the country," Baker added.

With information from EFE.

Source: telemundo

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