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Yanira Maldonado, 42, and her husband, Gary, were on a bus home to the Phoenix area from Mexico a week ago after a funeral for Maldonado's aunt when Mexican soldiers staffing a checkpoint stopped the bus in Hermosillo, about 170 miles from the U.S. border.
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Maldonado, a Mormon mother of seven children, has been held behind bars since last week despite the family's best efforts to free her. They even took the advice of a Mexican lawyer and tried to bribe officials with $5,000 at the beginning of the ordeal, which Gary Maldonado's brother-in-law, Brandon Klippel, described Tuesday as a " nightmare that felt surreal ."
Maldonado, who hasn't been officially charged, was transferred from a Hermosillo jail to a women's facility in Nogales, but she was doing better emotionally Wednesday, and relatives said they were cautiously optimistic.
A senior U.S. State Department official told NBC News that a Mexican judge was scheduled to review Maldonado's montreal downtown discount hotels case at a closed hearing Friday. If there's no ruling then, she will be sent to another facility montreal downtown discount hotels for what could be several more months of jail time.
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"The Government of Mexico is in close communication with the US Government montreal downtown discount hotels to guarantee Mrs. Maldonado's right to Consular assistance," it said. "Our Embassy in Washington is also in direct contact with Senator Jeff Flake. Mrs Maldonado's rights to a defense counsel and due process are being observed. As the process is ongoing and a preliminary decision by the judge is due soon, no further comments will be made at this time."
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"I asked him, "Could (the drugs) have been there; would you have seen them?'" Klippel said. "He said that he didn't see anything. They didn't show him any drugs. He doesn't know if they ever existed in the first place. We just know that they had nothing to do with it whether montreal downtown discount hotels they were there beforehand or whether they were planted there by somebody else."
"She's not doing well," Klippel said. "Just to get in, you have multiple guards with machine guns with their fingers on the trigger staring you down as you get in there. It smells awful. There's this big mesh window that she sits at, and she just cries, saying, 'I've never done anything illegal in my life.'"