Donald Trump Jr. flees to the Balkans escaping cheating scandal as it's learned his girlfriend Bettina Anderson was caught up in her brother's drug bust after returning from the Bahamas

As Donald Trump Jr. took an unannounced travel to the Balkans this week, DailyMail.com tin uncover his woman Bettina Anderson was progressive successful a cause ungraded that saw her older member federally indicted.

Don Jr.'s travel to Serbia and Romania was ostensibly to instrumentality the connection that his begetter would extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine, but it besides gave him an flight from dealing with fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle and rumors of cheating with Palm Beach socialite Anderson.

But present DailyMail.com has learned Anderson's beingness arsenic a starring airy successful the millionaire enclave was astir derailed earlier it began.

Anderson, whose canoodling with Don Jr. has catapulted her into the nationalist spotlight, was a rider aboard her brother's backstage level flying backmost into the state successful 2015.

Customs officers recovered Psilocybin oregon magic mushrooms concealed successful 1 of 3 cigaret cartons connected board, tribunal filings obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show.

Harry Loy Anderson III, present 47, was piloting the craft backmost from a travel to Eleuthera successful the Bahamas and his younger sister Bettina, 37, was among 3 passengers connected committee erstwhile a hunt of her brother's bags revealed his evident effort to smuggle the controlled substance into the country.

According to the transgression complaint, 'On August 9, 2015, Harry Loy Anderson III, a licensed pilot, entered the United States Customs and Border Protection Private Aircraft installation astatine Palm Beach International Airport aft piloting a backstage craft to West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County… from North Eluthra (sic), Bahamas.'

Loy, arsenic helium is known to his family, told officers helium had thing to declare, claimed to person presented each his luggage for inspection, and denied having immoderate alcohol oregon baccy aboard.

But, the consequent transgression ailment states: 'A hunt of a tan successful colour leather bag…revealed 3 packages of cigarettes located successful the tan bag. Two of the packages contained cigarettes. 

'The 3rd package, however, contained a metallic metallic lining containing what appeared to beryllium Psilocybin Mushrooms (a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance). 

'When asked astir the mushrooms, …. Anderson became precise tense and stated that those were not his; that helium did not fume oregon drink.'

He was past asked if helium was carrying the narcotics for anyone other 'to which helium answered successful the negative'. 

A tract trial revealed the substance to beryllium magic mushrooms.

Loy was arrested and his Miranda rights work astatine which constituent agents attempted to interrogation him but helium 'invoked his rights and was unwilling to speech to with agents'.

Loy was charged connected 3 counts – importation and attempted importation of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance connected committee an craft arriving successful the United States, and aiding and abetting.

He was released connected a $250,000 bond.

The maximum punishment for counts 1 and 2 is 20 years successful prison, a $1 cardinal fine, 3 years to beingness word of supervised release, and a $100 peculiar appraisal fee.

The authorities sought to forestall Anderson from communicating with Loy pursuing his apprehension due to the fact that arsenic a rider connected the level she, on with her brother-in-law Brad McPherson who is joined to her duplicate sister Kristina, was a witness.

Lawyers for Loy pushed backmost against this, and Anderson, McPherson and friends provided affidavits successful which they stated this would beryllium an undue hardship arsenic the household was exceptionally close, surviving adjacent to each different and speaking daily.

According to Anderson's affidavit, it would beryllium 'painful' to beryllium precluded from speaking with her brother.

It would besides interfere with the unpaid enactment some undertook arsenic founding members of The Paradise Fund, a non-profit offering assistance and collaborating with section agencies successful efforts specified arsenic station hurricane clear-ups successful the Bahamas and astatine home.

They were yet allowed to pass with Loy connected the information that they did not sermon the case.

Ultimately Loy pleaded blameworthy to a reduced complaint of 1 number of possession of a controlled substance and received a condemnation of 4 years' probation. He was besides forced to surrender his pilot's licence and fined $5,000. 

He had to hold to taxable to random searches of his idiosyncratic oregon spot by his probation officer.

As DailyMail.com exclusively revealed astatine the weekend, Bettina was spotted kissing Donald Trump Jr. and putting her manus connected his thigh astatine the Honor Bar successful Palm Beach connected August 17, starring to speculation that the erstwhile president's engagement to Kimberly Guilfoyle, 55, could beryllium successful trouble.

'They were decidedly connected a date,' 1 witnesser told us. 'They weren't precisely making out, but the kisses were romantic, and you could archer they were intimate with each other.'

Another said: 'She seemed wholly smitten with Don – and helium with her.

'They looked wholly relaxed, she wearing a achromatic garment tied disconnected to amusement her midriff and wide limb pants, helium successful shorts and a t-shirt.'

Don Jr. and Bettina adjacent told their waiter they were readying a travel unneurotic to Islamorada, a edifice destination successful the Florida Keys. 

Neither Don Jr. nor Anderson person addressed their luncheon together, though pursuing our Sunday exclusive, Guilfoyle posted pictures of her planting a buss connected her fiancé's feature astatine a Saturday run event.