Was a woman arrested in Culiacan, Sinaloa in Mexico because she asphyxiated her boyfriend with her vagina during sex? No, that's not true: a false story circulating via Mexican Facebook pages got translated by a U.S. based "fauxtire" site but it is not real.
The story appeared in English through an article published by 8Satire on November 5, 2018 titled "Woman Arrested After Her Boyfriend Died From Suffocation During 69" (archived here) which opened:
Culiacan, Sinaloa.- A woman may face charges for manslaughter after suffocating his partner to death during a very well known sexual position. According to the police officer, Gary Cockburn, the couple drank big amounts of alcohol before the sexual act. The woman, whose name remains secret to protect her, declared that due to the drinks the drank, they got horny. They decided to get naked, and since she was horny, she was in "automatic mode", so she got on top of him, and put her big thingy over his mouth, officially beginning the popular "69" position.
Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail so they may have confused it with real news if they weren't paying too much attention:
Woman Arrested After Her Boyfriend Died From Suffocation During 69
Culiacan, Sinaloa.- A woman may face charges for manslaughter after suffocating his partner to death during a very well known sexual position. According to the police officer, Gary Cockburn, the couple drank big amounts of alcohol before the sexual act. The woman, whose name remains secret to protect her, declared that due to the drinks the [...]
There are several pointers the story is not real. For starters, "Gary Cockburn" is a fake name used in many stories published on 8Satire and the article mentions 'NotiSin' as the source, specifically this Facebook post:
That page describes itself as an "Entertainment website", not a news outlet. And in a later post the page brags about the big impact the story is having, with other websites copying their "coverage":
The woman pictured with the story was not arrested for murder at all and the police are not hiding her name. It is "GRACIELA CRUZ GARCIA" according to this report from 2012 claiming she was arrested for drug trafficking, with the police claiming she was their "heaviest" suspect up to that point:
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