Overview
- Authorities moved the 25-year-old to the Presídio Feminino de Mata Escura on Oct. 28 after a custody hearing on Oct. 25 kept her detention.
- Police located her on Oct. 23 at a friend’s home in Itapuã following the operation’s launch, after a prior brief detention this year for carrying a small amount of drugs at an airport.
- Investigators allege she helped articulate an interstate drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme tied to activity on her social media accounts.
- According to police, she used her reach to commercialize marijuana, repass product to followers, give tips on avoiding checks during travel, and once distributed marijuana “kits” as self-promotion.
- Operação Erva Afetiva executed 10 search-and-seizure and five arrest warrants across Bahia and São Paulo, with four temporary arrests carried out, while one suspect was also booked in flagrante for trafficking and her defense rejects the accusations.