An elderly Nevada man looking for love was allegedly drugged and pushed across the US border into Mexico in a wheelchair by a “sinister” scammer before being found dead in a Mexico City hotel room – one of nearly a dozen victims who fell prey to her deceit,

Aurora Phelps, who is in custody in Mexico, faces 21 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, kidnapping and one count of kidnapping resulting in death.

In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico border in a wheelchair.

The top prosecutor said Phelps would find men online before meeting them in person. She’d drug the men, access their finances and steal from them. Grand jurors found in one case Phelps sold over $3 million of a victim’s stock in Apple. If convicted, Phelps faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The agency described the scheme as one of the most nefarious it has encountered, with nearly a dozen known victims and potentially more unidentified.

In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico border in a wheelchair.

In one case, Aurora Phelps is accused of drugging a man and selling $3.3 million of his stock in Apple, then trying but failing to steal the money.

Aurora Phelps​ was indicted in Nevada over a series of romance scams that allegedly led to at least two deaths and one disappearance in Mexico.

The alleged victims were “folks that are out looking for love that ran into something far more sinister,” according to the FBI