Ray William Johnson
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And that's when Sandra realizes that she's screwed up.
So she tells the officers not to worry about it and that from here she'll handle the negotiations herself.
And she does.
Eventually Sandra does negotiate with the kidnappers and she ends up paying them $3 million and she gets her son back.
However, the police don't actually let the situation go.
They end up running a background check on her and that is when they're able to connect her to the C's cocaine shipment from a couple of months earlier.
So now they know that she's definitely involved in some shady business and they start digging into her finances.
And pretty quickly they discover that she owns over 200 real estate lots, two houses, and a salon, which are assets worth far more than she should legally have.
So they come up with this theory that she's laundering money for the cartel and they issue a warrant for her arrest.
And then word gets out and suddenly the whole country is looking for Sandra.
So she decides to go on the run and she starts changing her houses and her cars and her hair color and even her face.
She allegedly pays for plastic surgeries to change her appearance so that no one can easily identify her.
And three years go by, and she's still on the run, and it's starting to look like she's really just good at hiding and that she might not ever get caught.
Until... Until one day in 2007, Sandra goes out to a local diner to have a cup of coffee, and bam, she gets arrested.
Here's her mugshot.
And so she ends up getting locked up while she waits on her conviction.
And while she's in Mexican jail, she's not your average inmate.
Like she has money and powerful connections.
So she ends up getting like three maids to help serve her food and serve her alcohol and cigarettes.
She even has a doctor who personally comes to give her Botox injections while she's in prison.