PHOENIX — An Arizona woman is jailed in Mexico on accusations that she tried to smuggle nearly 12 pounds of marijuana into the United States.
A court hearing was held Tuesday in Nogales, Sonora, for 42-year-old Yanira Maldonado, a mother of seven from the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear.
Maldonado and her husband said they were returning from the funeral of her aunt last Wednesday when the passenger bus they were on was stopped at a military checkpoint about 90 miles from the U.S-Mexico border.