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"They were there for a funeral and it turned into a nightmare," said Anna Soto.
Soto says her mother, Yannira Maldonado, is being wrongly detained in Mexico.
She visited her in a Nogales prison Saturday.
"She started crying and...she's like, 'I have faith that people will help us, that we will get out of this together as a family'," said Soto.
Maldonado and her husband were on their way back to Phoenix from her aunt's funeral in Mexico when the Tufesa bus they took was stopped at a checkpoint near Hermosillo.
The federales searched the bus and say they found drugs under a seat that the Mormon couple was sitting in.
He says the federales first charged him for the drugs, then let him go and charged his wife instead.
A Mexican attorney advised the couple to offer cash.
She has a hearing in front of a judge Monday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331593/Yanira-Maldonado-Family-claims-Mormon-mother-seven-falsely-held-Mexico-drug-smuggling.html?ico=ushome^editors_choice_six_of_th e_best
A couple of days after her arrest, she was transferred to a women's jail in Nogales, but the family was not informed. When her husband went to visit her, he was told she had been sent elsewhere.
'He panicked,' his brother, Klippel, said. 'He told me terror struck him. And he thought, for that period of time, that he'd never see his wife again.'
But on Saturday, he tracked her down to the holding cell and visited with one of their sons.
'She had a rough night,' Klippel said. 'Their interrogation included putting her in a non-air-conditioned room and waking her up several times in the middle of night – trying to get her to sign documents that she said she couldn't read.'
Senator Jeff Flake's office said he is personally monitoring the situation and has spoken with the deputy Mexican ambassador.
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"They were there for a funeral and it turned into a nightmare," said Anna Soto.
Soto says her mother, Yannira Maldonado, is being wrongly detained in Mexico.
She visited her in a Nogales prison Saturday.
"She started crying and...she's like, 'I have faith that people will help us, that we will get out of this together as a family'," said Soto.
Maldonado and her husband were on their way back to Phoenix from her aunt's funeral in Mexico when the Tufesa bus they took was stopped at a checkpoint near Hermosillo.
The federales searched the bus and say they found drugs under a seat that the Mormon couple was sitting in.
He says the federales first charged him for the drugs, then let him go and charged his wife instead.
A Mexican attorney advised the couple to offer cash.
She has a hearing in front of a judge Monday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331593/Yanira-Maldonado-Family-claims-Mormon-mother-seven-falsely-held-Mexico-drug-smuggling.html?ico=ushome^editors_choice_six_of_th e_best
A couple of days after her arrest, she was transferred to a women's jail in Nogales, but the family was not informed. When her husband went to visit her, he was told she had been sent elsewhere.
'He panicked,' his brother, Klippel, said. 'He told me terror struck him. And he thought, for that period of time, that he'd never see his wife again.'
But on Saturday, he tracked her down to the holding cell and visited with one of their sons.
'She had a rough night,' Klippel said. 'Their interrogation included putting her in a non-air-conditioned room and waking her up several times in the middle of night – trying to get her to sign documents that she said she couldn't read.'
Senator Jeff Flake's office said he is personally monitoring the situation and has spoken with the deputy Mexican ambassador.
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