Mexican officials provided local media with photos that they said were of the packages Maldonado is

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NOGALES, Mexico (AP) —  An Arizona woman held in a Mexico jail for a week on a drug-smuggling charge was freed after a court reviewed her case, including key security footage, and dismissed the allegations.
The family s lawyer in Nogales, Jose Francisco Benitez Paz, said a judge determined Thursday that she was no longer a suspect and all allegations los angeles traffic tann against her were dropped. los angeles traffic tann The couple los angeles traffic tann planned to immediately return to Arizona, he said.
Maldonado los angeles traffic tann s release came hours after court officials los angeles traffic tann reviewed security footage that showed the couple boarding a commercial bus traveling from Mexico to Phoenix with only blankets, bottles of water and her purse in hand.
U.S. politicians portrayed her as a victim of a corrupt judicial system and demanded her release with Arizona congressmen saying they were working closely with Mexican authorities. The office of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., earlier said that he has had multiple conversations with the deputy Mexican ambassador.
Benitez noted 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 a passenger. He said witness testimony and the surveillance los angeles traffic tann video showed Yanira Maldonado was innocent.
Gary Maldonado said he was originally arrested after the pot was found under his wife s bus seat, but after Yanira Maldonado begged the soldiers to allow her to come along to serve as a translator, the military officials decided to release him and arrest her instead. He said authorities originally demanded $5,000 for his wife s release, but the bribe fell through.
The bus passed through at least two checkpoints on the way to the border without incident. In the town of Querobabi los angeles traffic tann in the border state of Sonora, all the passengers were ordered off the bus and a soldier searched the interior as they waited. The soldier exited and told his superiors that packets of drugs had been found under seat 39, Yanira Maldonado s, and another seat, number 42. Her husband was in seat 40.
Mexican officials los angeles traffic tann provided local media with photos that they said were of the packages Maldonado is accused of smuggling. Each was about 5 inches high and 20 inches wide, roughly the width of a bus seat. The marijuana was packed into plastic bags and wrapped in tan packing tape.
Drug traffickers have increasingly been using passenger buses to move U.S.-bound drugs through Mexico. Federal agents and soldiers have set up checkpoints along Mexico s main highways and have routinely seized cocaine, marijuana, heroin and more from buses.
Mexican los angeles traffic tann law doesn t specify a minimum los angeles traffic tann or maximum sentence in drug crimes and leaves it up to the judge to decide how long the sentence should be, said Jose Luis Manjarrez, a spokesman for federal prosecutors in Mexico.