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Lawyer: US woman to be release shortly from Mexico jail
NOGALES, Mexico – The attorney for an Arizona mother locked up in a Mexico prison on a drug-smuggling charge is expected to be released soon.
The family’s lawyer in Nogales, Jose Francisco Benitez Paz, told reporters outside the Mexico jail that Yanira Maldonado’s release was pending Thursday night.
He said earlier that he was confident the charges will be dropped after court officials reviewed video Thursday that showed her and her husband, Gary Moldonado, boarding a bus with only blankets and bottles of water in hand.
Her husband and other family members were gathered outside the Nogales jail late Thursday night in anticipation of her release.
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