It seems life as an influencer didn’t sustain these two women accused of attempting to smuggle hundreds—yes, hundreds—of pounds of drugs.
In June, social media influencers Melissa Dufour and Racquelle Dolores Anteola were on a roadtrip from Houston to Atlanta when they were stopped by Mobile, Ala. police, according to reports. Upon stopping the two, the police K-9 started going crazy ensuing a search, according to a complaint filed by a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations. Authorities say they found the SUV had a backseat with a “modified steel aftermarket compartment.” The vehicle’s floor was also lowered and the side panels of the car were hollowed out to create more room.
Room for what? You might ask. Cocaine. To be precise, 217 pounds of cocaine valued around $2 million.
According to the girls, they met in Miami and were headed to a party in Houston in a vehicle driven by Dufour’s boyfriend. Unsure of how they’d get back home to Atlanta, the girls said they took an Uber from the party and went to a hotel. Days later, they went back to the party’s location to grab the car and got back on the road to Georgia. But how did they end up with a grown man’s weight in cocaine?
Their guilty pleas confirmed that they might soon trade their glitz and glam lives in for an orange jumpsuit. According to a filing from last month, both of them have intentions of pleading guilty.
The report also includes that the two women had a record of drug trafficking dating back to 2022. Before being detained by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Dufour was a traveling makeup artist and fitness influencer and Anteola was a music artist who goes by Rahky.
The women were sentenced to a minimum of 10 years to life in prison on federal drug and trafficking charges and five years of supervised released. They were also fined a sum of $10 million, according to the plea deal.
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