Beauty queen busted with £12,000,000 of cocaine after her airplane ran out of fuel
Beauty queen busted with £12,000,000 of cocaine after her airplane ran out of fuel
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A former Bolivian beauty queen has been arrested after landing in a cornfield with nearly £12,000,000 worth of cocaine in her airplane. Jade Callau, 21, was once crowned Miss FexpoBorja 2019, in her hometown of San Borja, a provincial city of 22,000 people.
![[Video shows the former beauty queen who was travelling on the drug plane which landed in Islas de Ibicuy, in Entre Ros, Argentina, undated. She was traveling with Carlos Costa Diaz, 52. (Newsflash/NX)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237676795-311d-e1738089647584.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
She’s made multiple TV appearances, as recently as August. Just 10 days ago she posted her latest video to TikTok, where – as Jade Chabela – she shares clips of her dancing and applying makeup with her more than 6,000 followers. In one message, apparently aimed at an ex, she said: ‘My greatest revenge will be that you see me every day more happy and beautiful.’.
![[Video shows the discovery of the drug plane in Entre Rios, Argentina, undated. A total of 359 kilograms of cocaine was seized. (Newsflash/NX)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237676748-2ba5-e1738089699609.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Now Callau is 900 miles away in Argentina, where her small airplane was found with 359kg of cocaine, worth an estimated £17.5million. She and 42-year-old Brazilian pilot Carlos Costas Diaz were forced to land the Cessna 210 in a cornfield among the low-lying islands of the Parana Delta.
The plane had reportedly run out of fuel while flying from Bolivia to an unspecified destination. Nestor Roncaglia, Security Minister of the Entre Rios province, said: ‘During the early hours of last Thursday morning, the Entre Ríos police were informed about the landing of a plane in a field in the department of Islas del Ibicuy.
‘A couple were travelling in the plane, who fled and were later arrested. They were a man from Brazil and a woman from Bolivia. ‘In view of this event, the federal judge on duty, Dr. Analía Ramponi, was informed. ‘With the cooperation of the National Gendarmerie, the Entre Ríos Police searched the plane and found 352 packages of cocaine with a total weight of 359 kilos.’.
