Mexico: Beauty queen is a gun runner?

Some stories speak for themselves:

A Mexican beauty queen and international pageant winner has been detained by police along with suspected drug traffickers who had assault rifles and cash.

Laura Zuniga, the 23-year-old Miss Sinaloa from the marijuana-producing Mexican state, was held with seven men at a military checkpoint in Guadalajara, police said on Tuesday…

Zuniga won the Miss Sinaloa title in July and was to compete in
the Miss International 2009 pageant next year in Asia. She was named "Queen of Hispanic America 2008" in a contest in Bolivia.

For better or worse, young girls throughout the Americas look up to beauty queens as role models. Let’s hope that’s not the case with Miss Zuniga.

Then again, there have been other beauty queens outside Latin America that have done worse.

Image- BBC News (Controversial dress celebrating the violent “cristero” period that was nearly worn by Miss Mexico at the 2007 Miss Universe pageant.)
Sources- Javno, Reuters