Beauty queen's lawyer denies evidence of drug link

The lawyer for a beauty queen accused of luring models into drug trafficking insisted Thursday that the evidence against her is purely cosmetic.

Former Colombian coffee queen Angie Sanclemente Valencia was detained Wednesday in the capital's fashionable Palermo neighborhood, where she had been living under a false identity, dyed her dark brown hair reddish-blonde and told people she was a Mexican student.

"There isn't a single indication of a direct link between Miss Sanclemente Valencia and this gang," attorney Guillermo Tiscornia told reporters before her appearance in a closed-door hearing Thursday.

Argentine authorities say she is …