Celebrity designer faces prison for smuggling crocodile handbags

A fashion icon who designed accessories worn by celebrities as well as characters in the "Sex and the City" TV series faces 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling crocodile handbags into the U.S. from Columbia. 

Nancy Gonzalez was sentenced on Monday in Miami federal court. Gonzalez was arrested in Cali, Colombia, in 2022, and then extradited to the United States on charges of violating U.S. wildlife laws. 

Prosecutors said she recruited couriers to carry her pricey handbags on commercial flights, smuggling an estimated $2 million worth of products into the U.S.