Nevada NIGHTMARE—Las Vegas Woman’s DEADLY Dating SCAM Exposed!
A Las Vegas woman faces charges for drugging and kidnapping older men she met online, stealing millions and leaving one dead. 🌐 #News #LasVegasNV #Nevada #Crime
LAS VEGAS, NV – A woman from Las Vegas, Nevada sits behind bars, accused of a chilling scheme that targeted older men searching for love online. Authorities say this scamming succubus lured them in, slipped drugs into their drinks, and whisked them away—sometimes across borders—to drain their bank accounts. Now, the FBI is hunting for more victims as the suspect faces serious charges tied to theft, kidnapping, and even a death.
Charges Pile Up Against Suspect
Aurora Phelps, 43, finds herself in custody in Mexico, where officials claim she took some of her targets. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada has hit her with a 21-count superseding indictment.
The charges include seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, six counts of bank fraud, three counts of identity theft, one count of kidnapping, and one count of kidnapping resulting in death.
If convicted on all counts, this this devious diva could spend the rest of her life in prison.
From July 1, 2021, to Dec. 9, 2022, Phelps allegedly used dating websites to connect with older men. After arranging face-to-face meetings, she reportedly drugged them to access their money, funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to herself and her family.
A Deadly Deception
The FBI’s Las Vegas field office spent two years unraveling this case.
“This is a romance scam on steroids,” Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division, said at a news conference on Friday.
Three of Phelps’ alleged victims passed away, though she’s only been charged in one death so far. In that incident, she reportedly sedated the man, wheeled him across the U.S.-Mexico border, and left him dead in a Mexico City hotel room.
Another man survived a week-long haze after Phelps allegedly fed him prescription sedatives. Evans shared that the victim woke from a coma, one of the few to escape her grasp alive.
Theft on a Grand Scale
While her targets were incapacitated, Phelps didn’t hold back.
Authorities say she swiped cars, emptied bank accounts, and racked up charges on stolen credit cards for luxury goods. She even tried tapping into social security and retirement funds.
In one case, while a victim lay “mostly unconscious” for nearly a week, Phelps allegedly seized his iPhone, iPads, driver’s license, and bank cards. She accessed his investment accounts, selling about $3.3 million in Apple stock—though she couldn’t cash out the proceeds.
“It’s folks that are out looking for love that ran into something far more sinister,” Evans said.
Dual Citizen, Dual Trouble
Phelps, who holds citizenship in both the U.S. and Mexico, maintained homes in Las Vegas and south of the border.
The FBI had her in their sights for years, and Mexican authorities have fielded similar reports. Now, with her arrest, the agency believes more victims may be out there.
They’ve launched a website to track down anyone else caught in her web, urging people to reach out or fill out an online victim services survey. Aurora Phelps has also used the names: Aurora Flores, Aurora Velasco, and Aurora Alvarez.
The investigation continues as the FBI pieces together the full scope of this cross-border crime spree. For now, Phelps awaits her fate, locked up far from the dating sites where her alleged reign began.
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