By Doug Kari Special to the Review-Journal
June 19, 2026 - 11:29 am
New details emerged this week astir the apprehension and condemnation of Las Vegas nonmigratory Aurora Phelps connected charges successful Mexico arising from the disappearance of an American man.
On Tuesday, the State Prosecutor’s Office successful Jalisco, a authorities successful occidental Mexico, issued a connection crediting their missing persons portion with securing the condemnation of a pistillate for the transgression of “disappearance committed by a backstage individual.”
Mexican national instrumentality makes it a transgression for a idiosyncratic to detain, abduct oregon kidnap idiosyncratic with an intent to conceal their destiny oregon whereabouts from authorities oregon loved ones.
The connection issued by the prosecutor’s bureau identified the alleged perpetrator arsenic “Aurora” followed by the missive “N,” which stands for “name not revealed” – a communal signifier successful Mexican judicial proceedings.
The pistillate successful a photograph that accompanied the connection is recognizable arsenic Phelps contempt the privateness barroom partially obscuring her face.
The prosecutor’s bureau said that the events starring to the condemnation of “Aurora N” began connected Dec. 8, 2021, successful the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the pistillate and the unidentified “male victim” connected online and agreed to conscionable successful person.
The “male victim” appears to notation to Robert “Beau” Erbach, a 67-year-old American expat who disappeared aft gathering up with Phelps successful Guadalajara successful December 2021.
According to the connection from the prosecutor’s office, aft the unfortunate met with “Aurora N” helium was “transported successful his ain conveyance to the State of Nayarit,” astir a 100 miles distant from Guadalajara.
The connection said that “Aurora N” was aboriginal arrested “while successful possession and driving the victim’s vehicle.” The “vehicle” is an evident notation to Erbach’s BMW, which Phelps allegedly stole from him.
A root progressive successful the Mexican ineligible strategy told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Phelps is being held successful the Women’s Penitentiary Center astatine the Punte Grande national penitentiary analyzable adjacent Guadalajara, pending further ineligible proceedings successful Mexico.
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Breault told the Review-Journal past week that pursuing the ineligible proceedings successful Mexico, Phelps volition beryllium extradited to the United States to look transgression charges pending against her successful national tribunal successful Las Vegas.
In September 2023, a expansive assemblage successful Las Vegas returned a 21-count sealed indictment against Phelps for kidnapping, fraud, and individuality theft.
In February 2025, aft the FBI discovered 7 much alleged victims, the indictment was unsealed arsenic portion of an effort to enlist the public’s help.
The FBI is asking anyone with accusation astir Aurora Phelps’s alleged romance scam to implicit an online signifier oregon telephone 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Doug Kari is an writer and investigative writer who writes astir existent crime.
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