Buckle up folks, because we’ve got some wild news to share with you. Costa Rican drug lord Luis “Shock” Grijalba was recently apprehended by the Feds. And get this, it was all thanks to his wife, Estefania McDonald Rodriguez’s Instagram post during their European vacation. Talk about some serious rookie mistakes!
So here’s the juicy details. While on their oh-so-relaxing vacation, Mrs. Grijalba couldn’t resist the urge to share luxurious vacation photos with her followers. But little did she know that the police were hot on their tails and monitoring their every move.
As soon as the Feds saw the Eiffel Tower selfies, they wasted no time in mobilizing their forces. Within hours, a team was knocking down the doors of the villa, arresting the Grijalbas completely off guard.
Grijabla, who goes by his alias “Shock,” was wanted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration for several months for his alleged involvement in international drug trafficking, said Randall Zúñiga the director of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department (OIJ).
The alleged kingpin – who rarely traveled with his 32-year-old wife – reportedly purchased $20,000 worth of plane tickets to fly his wife and family to Europe.
Grijabla, who is a naturalized Costa Rican citizen, met his wife in Paris and had planned to ring in the New Year with his family in England before his arrest.
To document the vacation, Grijabla’s wife, Estefania McDonald Rodriguez, made several posts to a now-deleted Instagram account during her European travels, according to The Sun.
One post captured the couple posing underneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Zúñiga said that Rodriguez frequently traveled abroad and posted about her adventures across her social media platforms, the outlet added.
She boasted about her vacations on sunny beaches, where she was spotted holding two parrots, and in Rome where she sat in front of the famed Trevi Fountain
DEA agents, who had been tracking Grijabla since he took off from Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría Airport, used the post of the couple in Paris to the suspected drug kingpin’s location, Costa Rican outlet Teletica reported.
The arrest was approved after the DEA obtained an international warrant.
So what’s the moral of the here? Well, if you happen to be a notorious drug lord, maybe keep your vacation plans under wraps. Or better yet, how about just not being a criminal in the first place? Just a suggestion. Stay safe out there, folks, and think twice before you hit that post button on your next vacation pictures.
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