
By ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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A television presenter has been left mortified after he mugshot was released online.
Gloria Torres was charged with a public order offense after a noise complaint was made against her in the Mexican city of San Nicolás de los Garza at around 2am last Tuesday.
The 35-year-old TV personality and model was in the process of being questioned by the cops on Cerro de Mamulique Street when she attempted to flee the scene in her vehicle and was immediately placed under arrest.
The Multimedios Television host was taken to a local police station, where she spent five hours before a judge saw her and released her on a bail bond of $206.
Torres’ woes were compounded after her mugshot went viral when details of her arrest were released by the San Nicolás de los Garza Municipal Police Department.
‘If I had known that they were going to leak that photo,’ Torres posted on social media, ‘they would have let me know so I could retouch it, because my hair comes out very messy.’
Torres also took to Instagram Story, where she vowed to reveal the facts that led to her arrest.
‘I will give my version because obviously this is not going to stay like this,’ she claimed. ‘People with bad intentions want to damage my image.’
Mexican television presenter Gloria Torres joked that she wished she had a better hair day after her mugshot was taken following her arrest for public disorder on May 20 in San Nicolás de los Garza, a city in the northeaster Mexican state of Nuevo León
Gloria Torres, a presenter for Multimedios Television in Nuevo León, Mexico, was taken into custody after she attempted to flee from the police in her car May 20 while she was being questioned over a loud noise complaint
Mexican television presenter says of her recent brush with the law: ‘There is no such thing as bad publicity, I think this has worked to my advantage’
In a separate post, she claimed that her run-in with the law may have benefited her.
‘There is no such thing as bad publicity, I think this has worked to my advantage,’ she said.
Torres is the second Multimedios Television presenter who has had a brush with the law in three months.
Gisselle Sampayo and her boyfriend were arrested at their home in San Pedro Garza García on February 17 after a neighbor heard the couple arguing loudly and called the police.
According to local outlets, Sampayo’s boyfriend is the alleged leader of street drug gang that operates in Monterrey, San Nicolas de Garza and Apodaca.
Sampayo was eventually released after the Nuevo León state prosecutor’s office found that she did not have any links to her boyfriend’s illicit dealings.