According to a Las Vegas FBI official, the woman directly seduced at least four older men, swallowed the medication with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme.
Three men have died, authorities said, and she was charged with one of their deaths.
Aurora Phelps, 43, who is being held in Mexico, faces 21 counts of Sufahami, a representative US lawyer for the Nevada area, including sphing’s theft, identification and one invitation. I stated.
“It’s a steroid romance scam,” said Spencer Evans, a special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division. One of the four victims, all targeted in 2021 and 2022, woke up from coma after Phelps gave him a week of prescription sedation, Evans added.
In one instance, Phelps sedated him badly, took him across the US-Mexican border in a wheelchair, and then to a hotel room in Mexico City where he later died, and then the victim was. It is said that he invited him.
After neutralizing the victim, Phelps steals the car, withdraws money from bank accounts, uses credit cards to buy luxury items and money, and even tries to access Social Security and retirement accounts. did.
According to the indictment, Phelps met one man in July 2021, had lunch, ordered lunch to his house in November, and slipped prescription drugs.
He was “almost unconscious” for about five days, but Phelps accessed his account and stole his iPhone, iPad, driver’s license and bank card. She also reportedly accessed his e-trade account and sold about $3.3 million worth of Apple stock, but was unable to withdraw the money.
Officials believe Phelps will use popular dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Bumble to find targets. According to Evans, the man was lonely and looking for a relationship, and after going on multiple dates with Phelps, he stained the sedative.
“It’s people who are looking for love that has come across something much more sinister,” Evans said.
According to Evans, Phelps, a double citizen of Mexico and the US, was on the FBI radar for several years. He declined to comment on her criminal history.
Phelps doesn’t have a US lawyer who can speak on her behalf, a Justice Department spokesman said. The Associated Press left a message seeking comment with Mexico’s Foreign Office and the Attorney General’s Office.
Some of the victim’s parents were called authorities when they were unable to contact their loved ones, Evans said.
Court records show that one woman was unable to contact her father the day after she dated Phelps in Guadalajara, Mexico in May 2022. The next day, Mexican police found him dead on the toilet floor of his house. Phelps then used the accounts belonging to the victim to purchase gold coins, along with other transactions, the indictment alleges.
The FBI is aware of more victims in the US and Mexico, Evans said. He also created information about the public, including aliases, with aliases, in the hopes of identifying others who were victims of her fraud and trust in her might have a cost. “Their lives said.”
The FBI has also worked with the Department of Justice and Mexican authorities to ensure extradition.
Phelps is the largest prison sentence if convicted on all charges including 7 wire fraud, 3 mail fraud, 6 count bank fraud, 3 identity theft, and 1 invitation. Fahami said he faces a life sentence.
