Federal authorities have caught a serial seducer who fled to Mexico, allegedly drugged and robbed several older men in a fatal three-year Las Vegas scam.
Mexican police arrested 43-year-old Aurora Phelps, accused of using dating apps to seduce, drug and steal a man's identity between 2019 and 2022.
She is said to have fled the victims for hundreds of thousands of dollars and linked them to the three deaths.
“This is a steroid romance scam,” said Spencer Evans, a special agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas division. “We believe Aurora Phelps will intentionally and systematically target older men and steal them by drugging them.”
Phelps, who is being held in Mexico, said Acting U.S. Attorney General for the District of Nevada, Sue Fahami, faces 21 counts including wire fraud, identity theft and one lunatic. .
Phelps, whose alias for the crime include “Flores”, “Verasco” and “Alvarez”, targeted men in their 60s and 70s, but said she sometimes fooled young victims and women. Ta.
“After she neutralised the victim, Phelps steals the car, accesses to banks and securities accounts to withdraw cash, and uses credit cards to make various purchases, including luxury retail goods and gold, and social studies. I even tried to access coverage and retirement. Accounts,” Evans said.
One victim woke up from coma after Phelps gave him a prescription sedative for a week, Evans said.
“I'm looking for friends. There's no fake people or gente falsa,” a seducer promoted on her Tinder profile under the name “Sisy.”
At one point, Phelps fled south of the border, but she was arrested by Mexican police and is now waiting for extradition to the United States.
Despite identifying several victims, authorities believe it has only damaged the surface of Phelps' fraud.
The FBI called for her victim to come forward and posted a photo of the seducer on its website.
With post wire
