Today's Blind Items - Celebrity Drug Mule

There are a couple of guys out there who are flashy and have a ton of money. They hang out at clubs and seemingly get invited to every celebrity party. There are at least two that I know of, although there could be a couple more. They throw money around like crazy and always have the best coke. They generally have women around them in droves. How do they get their money? Drug dealing. Rather, it is their job to find people to move drugs for them. Drug mules. Apparently many of the women who hang out with them have never watched Locked Up Abroad. Perhaps they should. These guys reel multiple women in at a time and take them on a vacation to the Caribbean. Generally either the Dominican Republic or to Colombia. The first trip they call the virgin trip. They take about a dozen women and just party and have a good time. They get the women's trust and then they all fly back. Nothing was asked of the women, so if they have any suspicions, they are usually allayed. Before, during an after the trip, the guys are also looking for women to emotionally exploit. They get them to fall in love so they will do even more than asked. These women become the recruiters. They take to Instagram and other social media to find new recruits for the business. At this point though, they don't know it is a business. They think they are finding other women for the parties. The best recruiters are celebrities themselves. There are multiple Instagram models out there with millions of followers who are unknowingly recruiting for drug cartels. There are at least a handful of MTV reality competition stars who are doing it too. Those invites to parties and mention a code to get VIP are often a hustle for the cartels. There is at least one A- list singer who is doing it and knows what she is doing and why.

The people who go on the virgin trips hashtag the trip all to hell and that also helps with recruiting. The next trip is called the go trip. It involves no people who have not been before. It consists of all second timers who think the trip will be like the first. It is, except for one small change. Each of the women is usually given a gift to bring back. That gift sometimes has coke in it and sometimes doesn't. What is assured is that when the women are met back in the US, the driver who loads their bags into the Spinner van outside the airport terminal also removes the gift from each of their bags. The gift usually contains about a kilo of coke. These trips have been really successful over the past few months, but there have been some arrests too.

At least four of the women have been arrested and charged with smuggling drugs. The thing is though, except for clubbing, most of the women don't really have any connection to each other so word has been slow to spread back to the rest of the group. Further, once the second group comes back, none of them are used again. They are all just kind of ignored and shunned. Only the women who are good at recruiting are allowed to remain, but generally don't go on more trips because of the chances of being caught and also because at this point they know more of the group and if they get arrested can bring down the entire scam.