New Mexico Mother Accused of Using ‘Her Minor Children to Mule Drugs’ on Flight to Dallas

A New Mexico mother accused of hiding fentanyl in her children’s luggage before putting them on a flight to visit their father in Dallas, Texas, has been charged with a federal drug crime.
Magdalena Silva Banuelos, 46, was indicted on charges of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham announced Tuesday in a news release.
On Nov. 17, at a detention hearing in New Mexico, prosecutors accused Banuelos of providing a fatal dose of fentanyl to her boyfriend, who was also the father of her young sons. The couple was said to be in an on-again, off-again relationship….