Before Aurora Phelps was charged with federal crimes related to scamming older men, she faced fraud and theft charges for a 2019 incident in Benton County, Arkansas.

William Phelps had no idea that the woman he married had a secret life. Prosecutors say she lured, drugged and stole from older men — some of whom died.

Aurora Phelps, who is in custody in Mexico, faces 21 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, kidnapping and ...

She used online dating apps to lure older men to meet her in person, then drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, the FBI said.

Aurora Phelps​ was indicted in Nevada over a series of romance scams that allegedly led to at least two deaths and one ...

In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico ...

“This is technically a romance scam, but this is a romance scam on steroids,” said Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division, at a news conference Friday. “We have not ...

February 23, 2025 – LAS VEGAS, NV – A Las Vegas, Nevada, woman has been charged in a 21-count superseding indictment for ...

An elderly Nevada man looking for love was allegedly drugged and pushed across the US border into Mexico in a wheelchair by a ...

The FBI arrested a Las Vegas woman in Mexico for allegedly luring older men online and scamming them out of thousands of ...

A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, then drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a "sinister" romance scheme, FBI ...