A teenage beauty influencer and her airline worker boyfriend have been seized by police after being caught driving through Dublin with more than GBP 5,000 in their car.
Laryssa Sales, 19 and airline help-desk staffer Otavio Martin de Sousa, 30, both originally from Brazil, were stopped as they drove through the Irish capital on 18th May.
A bail hearing was told that police discovered a bag full of ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and cannabis worth EUR 6,090 (GBP 5,140) in the glove box.
Laryssa Sales, 19, poses in undated photo. The Brazillian was arrested in Dublin, Ireland, on May 18, 2025. Note: Private photo taken from social media. (@laryssasalespinello/Newsflash/NX)
Police officer Darragh Mylod told Dublin District Court on 19th May that when the car was stopped Sales "leaned forward to the glove box in what looked like panic".
She told police, Judge Gerard Jones heard, that the cannabis, worth EUR 1,640 (GBP 1,400), was for her own use and that she and her partner were not involved in drug trafficking.
Officer Gillian Slane told the court that "very uncooperative" Sales, who had claimed to be pregnant, gave a false addresses in Dublin and would not open her phone to confirm her name.
Laryssa Sales, 19, poses in undated photo. The Brazillian was arrested in Dublin, Ireland, on May 18, 2025. Note: Private photo taken from social media. (@laryssasalespinello/Newsflash/NX)
He said: "I don't know she is who she says she is."
The court heard how the officers also found EUR 3,000 (GBP 2,500) in cash in a door pocket, weighing scales and drugs packing material.
Laryssa Sales, 19, poses in undated photo. The Brazillian was arrested in Dublin, Ireland, on May 18, 2025. Note: Private photo taken from social media. (@laryssasalespinello/Newsflash/NX)
Online Sales flaunts a VIP lifestyle wearing designer gear in glamorous locations for her 20,000 Instagram followers.
Both Sales and Martin de Sousa were denied bail after police told the court they feared the couple would flee back to Brazil.
Judge Jones remanded them in custody for a further hearing on 24th May saying: "She would be on the next plane out of this country, if she got bail."
(MJ Leidig/newsX)