Colombian model, beauty pageant winner facing death penalty smuggling dr...

An arrest took place during a trip to China, where a Colombian model was arrested for drug possession. The drug was transported inside her computer and she is now facing the death penalty.

Juliana Lopez, the 22 year old model frightened her family and friends. They had made a statement to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo that their sibling was on a travelling  business  for 2 weeks and had been detained in China.

the model is being accused of psychoactive drugs smuggling inside her computer. This charge is being punished in China by life prison or the death penalty. The The newspaper reported that Juliana was arrested on the 18th of July on the Guangzhou airport.

Lopez was supposed to compete for the Miss World Medellin pageant this week, but now she is crying in a Chinese prison while her relatives are trying to find a solution for her to be helped.

Her family said that they had to contact the embassy in China after they have lost contact with Lopez;The embassy informed Lopez's family that she was arrested.

Beside being a pageant model,Lopez plays for a local soccer club team. Her coach Alejandro Duque said to the newspaper that they are planning a money raiser so that her mother with a lawyer to go to China.He had tolt the newspasper that Lopez was a good girl,bright student, model, and always ready for commitments for her team.

Lopez's friend, Lis Hernandez, had also spoken to the newspaper, and stated that her friend went to China to buy clothes, accessories and other souvenirs so that she could sell back home.

"My heart tells me she is not guilty," Hernandez said. "You cannot condemn it yet, I have hope that she is innocent and everything is clear."