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Lee
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Really? I don't see it that way. US tourists who think this situation could happen to them don't go to MX anyway. This story confirms
what they already believe.
The rest of us think she's guilty or maybe the driver was smuggling the pot.
By the way, 12 pounds would be about the size of a small car seat and about 3'' thick. If wrapped sufficiently, it would not smell.
Odd title for a thread, too. Much ado about nothing.
If I were riding a MX bus, in the future, and I never will, I'd check under the seat.
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hey, mormons have a propensity to breed so the more mules the better....mitt has always had a good "business" sense about him.
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WTF does that mean?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
WTF does that mean? |
I dont know, either, but if she's out by the weekend, I'm converting if this ever happens to me. The Mormon angle is being played up big time in the
US press.
I think an employee of the bus line is the most likely. There was a Tufesa bus driver who was killed in front of his passengers only a couple years
ago on this same route. The bus was forced to the side of the road and BANG!! Even the authorities over here figured he resisted being a mule or had a
former shipment disappear or something unbecoming to some cartel.
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Hook
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Oh yeah, I guess the much touted revision of the judicial system and the scrapping of the Napoleonic Code is still a work in progress..........
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
Oh yeah, I guess the much touted revision of the judicial system and the scrapping of the Napoleonic Code is still a work in progress..........
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That's going to take longer than forever. They're going to have to shove "transparency" down their throats against their will. Just think of the
profit opportunities they'll lose.
I once had a landlord in town who was the Procurador of the State Judicial police. He wasn't a judge, but he would hold court in his living room
right below my place.
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On the news right now. I wonder if the border wait will be shorter...
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another example of how effed up mexico is with all the corruption. I for one have had it with them and their country. The cops failed to show at the
1st hearing yesterday - not one!! so much for the charges but she should NEVER have had to go thru all this. They were south for a funeral. She has 7
kids and no criminal record. No video evidence of her packing it on.
I hope their tourism dumps until they reform and clean up their act. Totally unacceptable - time for it to end. 
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I do not look forward señor Mike, to this happening during the short lifetime I have left. The system is so thoroughly "skewed" one sector is afraid
of going straight and getting screwed by another. Example: A referendum establishing a fair wage for law enforcement personnel. 99.9999999999999% of
Mexicans would be convinced they will be taxed to pay much higher wages and the cops will continue to bite just as hard.
But then arguing against that, the PFP seeming cleaned up their act. Vamos a ver.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
The cops failed to show at the 1st hearing yesterday - not one!! so much for the charges but she should NEVER have had to go thru all this.
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Thanks, Mike. I was going to ask how it went, but she's not out yet? Is she?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I think she'll be home by the weekend. There's a lot of unhappy talk going around about this one. |
She was allowed a jail house interview on US TV this morning.
www.foxnews.com/us/.../arizona-mother-fights-allegations-dru...
http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/video/052...
An Arizona mother accused of trying to smuggle 12 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. from Mexico says she has “nothing to hide” and expects to be
released soon.
Yanira Maldonado, 42, of Goodyear, Ariz. was arrested by the Mexican military after they found nearly 12 pounds of pot under her bus seat last week.
In an exclusive jailhouse interview, the mother of seven told ABC15.com she had nothing to do with the marijuana packages — packed in plastic bags and
wrapped in tan packing tape — found under her seat.
“I’m going to be free; I’m not guilty,” Maldonado said. “I have nothing to hide.”
Maldonado, a devout Mormon, credited her faith as her source of strength while behind bars for nearly a week in a Mexican jail in Nogales.
“I was nervous before, but now I feel a little better,” she told ABC15.com. “This is a trial that I have to go through. It’s going to make us
stronger.”
Still, Maldonado said she’s eagerly anticipating her freedom.
“This is a nightmare,” she said. “I need to be out.”
Jose Francisco Benitez Paz, Maldonado’s attorney, told a judge during a court hearing on Wednesday that she should be released from prison, noting
that it was a fairly sophisticated smuggling effort that included packets of drugs attached to the seat bottoms with metal hooks — a task that would
have been impossible for someone like Maldonado.
"It was very well prepared," he said. "It wasn't something quick. It was very well done."
Maldonado and her husband, Gary, said they were returning from the funeral of her aunt last Wednesday when the passenger bus they were on was stopped
at a Mexican military checkpoint about 90 miles from the U.S. border. Authorities ordered everyone off, searched the bus and then claimed to have
found the marijuana under her seat.
"It’s looking promising, like our case is solid and theirs looks weak.”
- Gary Maldonado, husband of woman accused of pot smuggling
“We just had our witnesses testify, I did my declaration,” Gary Maldonado, her husband, told MyFoxPhoenix.com by phone. “Yanira did hers yesterday.
It’s looking promising, like our case is solid and theirs looks weak.”
Gary Maldonado said an attorney told them they could pay off the judge, so he had family members wire him $5,000 for the bribe. But he says though the
money was offered, it was not accepted. He also said the Mexican legal system is a far cry from the judicial process in the U.S.
“What they do is they gather up all the testimonies and then the judge will have her secretary-lawyer type all the stuff up and then she’ll give a
recommendation of what she thinks to the judge,” he said. “The judge will decide the case from reading all the evidence, who weighs more in evidence.”
Benitez said that he was hired Friday and represented Maldonado in hearings on Monday and Tuesday. He presented testimony from her and from two
relatives who accompanied the couple to the Los Mochis bus station, and two fellow passengers on the bus. All four testified that she had not been
carrying any drugs.
He described her as depressed, but said she had not been abused of mistreated.
"She doesn't accept any of the accusations that are being made," he said. "She is sad because of the situation, in which she's being accused of a
crime she didn't commit."
Brandon Klippel, Yanira Maldonado’s brother-in-law, told MyFoxPhoenix.com that four members of Maldonado’s family testified in court Tuesday,
including a relative who dropped them off at the bus station. Klippel said witnesses testified that the Maldonados entered the bus “without anything
with them” and that documentation exists confirming that the funeral took place.
“Our greatest fear right now is that our sister will be lost,’’ Klippel told Savannah Guthrie on NBC's "Today" show Wednesday. “One of the things the
attorney said to us right in the beginning is that once you’re in the federal prison system (in Mexico), they move you around without keeping good
records. In fact, she was lost for the first day in the prison system when this first started. "If she’s moved and transported around, we may never
see our sister again, and that’s something that would just be devastating to our family.”
Anna Soto, one of Maldonado's daughters, said she’s innocent and should be allowed to return to Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix.
“Just let her come home,” Soto said. “Let her come home. She is innocent.”
Soto said she hopes her mother will be home by Friday.
“[I] keep praying, that’s all I can really do,” she told MyFoxPhoenix.com.
The Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., said in a statement Tuesday that Yanira Maldonado's "rights to a defense counsel and due process are being
observed." The embassy didn't respond to allegations she was framed.
Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman for the U.S. State Department in Mexico, confirmed Maldonado's arrest but referred all questions to her
attorney and Mexican authorities. But on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson said U.S. diplomats have been in touch with both the Maldonados
and Mexican authorities regarding the incident.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., "is personally monitoring the situation and he has had multiple conversations with the deputy Mexican ambassador," his
office said in a statement.
Click for more from MyFoxPhoenix.com.
Click for more from ABC15.com.
[Edited on 5-30-2013 by durrelllrobert]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I think she'll be home by the weekend. There's a lot of unhappy talk going around about this one. |
maybe so, but the chain of events in the story is illustrative of the sometimes criminal cops and military in mexico, and the incompetent bureaucratic
indifference of the legal system in mexico,... yikes! |
While I agree that cops can be among the most corrupt people in Mexico (have to to survive on those wages), I have never had any problems with the
Mexican military personnel in that area, always very professional.
This is really a strange case. I agree with those who wonder how a passenger would have the time to strap such a shipment under their seat unobserved.
And only a stupid person would put it under their own seat. There's more to this story than we know, obviously.
There most certainly is but one side to every story: the TRUTH. Variations of it are nothing but lies.
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I just got this from an AP article. I hadn't seen or heard this, not that it changes anything:
"Yanira is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico..."
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She has been on TV and radio... This really makes Mexican authorities look dumb IMO... How did she get on the bus before anyone else to strap the
bundle under her own seat? No video cameras at the bus depot?
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rts551
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I just got this from an AP article. I hadn't seen or heard this, not that it changes anything:
"Yanira is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico..." |
and when I heard her interview today she was speaking broken English...maybe because she was upset.
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Seeing her and hearing her speak on TV, it is pretty obvious that English is not her primary language. But, that doesn't make any difference, does it?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Seeing her and hearing her speak on TV, it is pretty obvious that English is not her primary language. But, that doesn't make any difference, does it?
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It may make a difference to her time spent in a Mexican jail. At least she can communicate.
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And it may not have been as obvious she wasn't Mexican so maybe it does make a difference.
Hey you never know..they confiscated 2000 cans of supposed Jalepenos yesterday...the cans were full of pot.
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She's FREE...and YES by the weekend as you guessed-
There WAS a video camera at the depot and it showed her getting on the buss.....
http://gma.yahoo.com/arizona-mom-yanira-maldonado-freed-mexi...
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"Yanira Maldonado crossing the border into the US after her release from a Mexican jail"
"Yanira Maldonado thanks relatives, lawyer and journalists on her way out of Nogales jail."
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