I Languished In A Mexican Prison

I’m not sure how I hung on while I was in Mexico. I guess it was people telling me how many people were behind me and praying for me. It helped having people tell me not to give up.

Why Mexico?

I was living in Tucson, Arizona and moved back to Canada to get back together with a boyfriend. Well, that lasted two weeks. I didn’t really want to go back to Tucson, so I thought, "You know what? I’m going to go to Puerto Vallarta." We used to vacation there, I’d met a lot of people and I knew I could get employment.

I had a job within a month, as a chef manager of a well-known restaurant. It was too many hours, too little pay…and that’s when I met Alyn Waage. Of course I didn’t know it then, but Alyn operated what’s been called the largest Internet fraud scheme in history, defrauding over $60 million from 15,000 people. He was arrested after I stopped working for him.

I have no use for the man now. I’m very upset that I was duped by him. I believe that the fraud he did was probably a lot more than what was estimated. He’s probably still got money out there.

The Arrest

I was picked up under false pretence. I got a call from this man named Antonio. He didn’t speak much English, so we had a hard time communicating. He was talking about having a 60th birthday party for his mother, and said he’d heard I was one of the best caterers in Vallarta. We arranged for him to come over the next day with an English-speaking person so we could have a conversation more easily.