Deaf Woman Arrested as Drug Mule in Online Scam

0:00A 59-year-old woman from Surrey, British Columbia, named Spring Parks, is locked up in South Korea on drugs muggling charges after nearly four. Kilograms of methamphetamine turned up in her suitcase. She flew out of Canada at the end of January to meet a guy she met online, stopped in South Africa to grab the bag as he told her, then headed. Straight to Korea where border agents nabbed her. Her family insists she got duped in a romance cam and had zero clue about the drugs. Max's death, with American sign language as her main way to communicate, and she doesn't speak Korean at all, making everything 10 times harder in. Custody The family only found out about the trip when she texted them on February 1st, saying she thought she was in love, but it was all the lie, and she was, getting arrested as a drug mule. That was their last direct word from her. Now lawyers relay short messages, and they set up a go-fundme to cover legal fees, interpreters, and her. They set back home after they had to sell her stuff.

1:00Lawyers say her spirits are holding up okay in a rough prison, and they've got emails proving the scammer, who went by Tyler from Nigeria, vanished, after targeting her with a fake actor persona. South Korean officials are tough on this, though, skeptical of the innocent's claim with that much meth involved. Canadian officials know about the case and are offering consular help, while the family stays hopeful through the toughest months yet, pushing for. If she's just a victim, caught in a cruel online trap, that's the story for today. Calvary News Today, Driven by AI, I'm Corey with The Story.