A Mexican beauty queen was among eight people arrested on Thursday on suspicion of being involved with a kidnapping gang. According to Mexico News Daily, Laura Mojica Romero, 25, has been jailed without bail for allegedly being a part of a kidnapping ring that operates in Veracruz and Oaxaca.
Authorities reportedly said that Romero and seven others had been arrested in a raid conducted by a federal anti-kidnapping unit following two months of investigation.
Prosecutors said that Laura Mojica Romero and the other suspects were allegedly involved in a criminal organization connected to multiple kidnappings.
Crime Online reported that the Mexican beauty queen was arrested with two other women and five men. On Saturday, a judge ruled that Romero and seven other kidnapping suspects will remain in prison for the next two months as the investigation continues.
Beauty queen Laura Mojica was arrested in Veracruz, Mexico, on January 15
The 25-year-old is accused of belonging to a kidnapping gang that operates in the Veracruz city of Huatusco and other municipalities in the region
María del Carmen Romero told El Piñero that her daughter is the victim of a crime that was fabricated in Veracruz
Romero said Mojica was traveling to a modeling gig in the state of Querétaro when she and four other people were arrested
Mojica won the Miss Oaxaca 2018 regional beauty contest and placed third in the Miss Mexico 2019 pageant