Las Vegas woman accused of drugs, disappointing older men in a mortal romance scheme

The FBI is looking for more possible victims of Aurora PhelpsA woman accused in Nevada for allegedly attracting several men in appointment applications to Mexico, drugs and stealing her financial information.

According to the judicial documents presented in October 2023, Phelps, 43, also known as Aurora Flores, Aurora Velasco and Aurora Álvarez, is linked to at least two deaths and a disappearance. He is accused of making friends with older men who met in person or online and obtain access to his bank, social security or retirement accounts sometimes drugping them.

The FBI asks the victims of the alleged romantic scam to be presented

The FBI issued a press release on Friday Asking other possible victims to present After prosecutors presented a motion to disassemble the accusation earlier this month. The office has the legal mandate to identify the victims of federal crimes that it investigates, but all the identities of the victims It will remain confidentialsaid.

The researchers published several Phelps photos, including a screenshot of the application of Tinder dating that shows the woman with long and brown hair with a brief propaganda that said, in part, “I am looking for friends. There are no false people.”

The accusation revealed from a grand jury in Nevada accused Phelps of cable fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, identity theft and kidnapping. Phelps was arrested in September 2023 in Mexico, according to Movement to disassembleWhere she remained pending extradition to the United States

The special FBI agent by Spencer Evans described the accusations as “romantic scam on steroids”, Klas CBS Affiliate reported.

The alleged victims of Aurora Phelps

According to an accusation of 21 replacement charges, Phelps allegedly met a victim in July 2021 in an online dating, going to appointments with him during the next two months while “trying to persuade him to travel with her to Mexico.”

In November 2021, Phelps met him at home, where they ordered lunch for childbirth, and she supposedly “made him consume a prescribed medication without his knowledge and consent,” said the accusation. Then he allegedly left the old man unconscious over the next five days, stealing his iPhone, iPad, driver’s license and bank cards and using the information to sell his Apple shares, for an approximate value of $ 3.3 million, in commerce electronic. However, she could not eliminate the money from her account, according to the accusation.

In 2022, Phelps met another older man online. This man then met Phelps in person in a restaurant in Las Vegas, where he supposedly gave him medications and other substances that “did they became lethargic and confused,” said the accusation.

She is again accused of getting access to man’s financial accounts, using her American Express credit card, influencing her to her Mexico City and using her Wells Fargo card to rent a hotel room. Several days later, Phelps returned to the United States without the second victim, who had died at the hotel, prosecutors alleged.

In addition to the use of the credit card, Phelps also supposedly transferred $ 7,000 from the victim’s capital account to buy a motorcycle and made two other wire transfers of approximately $ 1,530 and $ 2,319 on their own account and those of her husband . The victim’s social security account had also been allegedly changed to Phelps.

In December 2021, the alleged scammer met a third victim at the Hard Rock Hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he also resided, the judicial document detailed.

“She left the hotel with him and made him disappear,” said the accusation, without additional details.

Throughout the following year, Phelps would transfer the monthly social security payments of the third victim and constantly took money from the victim’s bank account making purchases and retreats from ATMs, prosecutors alleged. She is also accused of taking her BMW and supposedly tried to become a beneficiary in the victim’s union retirement account.

The last victim that is quoted in the federal accusation was found dead on the floor of his bathroom in Guadalajara, Mexico, one day after prosecutors claim that it was an appointment with Phelps around May 30, 2022.

Following the same employer as with other victims, Phelps is accused of stealing the final victim’s accounts or trying to access them, including the use of one of their accounts to buy a APME Gold currency that supposedly sent by his house.

CBS News has contacted FBI for more information. It is not clear if Phelps still has representation, and his extradition to the snowfall is ongoing.

If it is convicted of all charges, Phelps faces a maximum legal fine of life imprisonment, according to prosecutors.