Overview
- Canadian officers intercepted Diana Toro Díaz at Montréal–Trudeau Airport using a false passport and transferred her to the Laval immigration detention center.
- She remains in immigration custody as officials verify her identity and consider a U.S. extradition request, with no Canadian charges or hearing dates announced.
- A U.S. Homeland Security alert listing her for drug and money-laundering offenses helped prompt the airport stop.
- The U.S. Treasury’s sanctions office has listed Toro Díaz and her husband, alleged aviation coordinator Alejandro Flores Cacho, since 2010 under the Kingpin Act for using front companies to move cartel money.
- Canadian media report she entered the country multiple times under false identities and lived in Montreal with her family.