Love Online Leads to International Lockup

Published: Oct. 5, 2018, 4:01 a.m.

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Bryon, a retired pastor, thought he\\u2019d met his dream girl online. For five years he conversed over the\\xa0internet\\xa0with Joy,\\xa0who claimed to live in London. So when Joy asked Bryon to transport real estate papers,\\xa0he had no idea he was being used in an elaborate plot to smuggle drugs. Bryon is one of hundreds of\\xa0Americans\\xa0over the age of\\xa060\\xa0who were conned into unwittingly serving as drug mules in what the\\xa0U.S.\\xa0Senate Special Committee on Aging calls one of the worst scams it has uncovered.

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