Arizona woman, Yanira Maldonado, was held in a Mexico jail on drug-smuggling charges for the last week. She was kept in a prison on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico were she was released late Thursday night.

The Mexican Military arrested Yanira Maldonado last week, when they found 12 pounds of marijuana under seat during a security checkpoint. The bus bassed through two checkpoints without any issue. However, in the boarder town of Querobabi in Sonora, officals searched the bus and found drugs under seat 39 Yanira Maldonado’s, and seat number 42. Gary Maldonado stated “a man sitting behind them on the bus fled during the inspection. He said the man might have been the true owner of the drugs.”

 Maldonada, was freed after the court reviewed security footage which revealed her boarding the bus with only blankets, bottles of water and a purse in hand. Yanira and her husband Gary were traveling via commercial bus from Mexico to Phoenix. 

Maldonada’s lawyer Jose Francisco Benitez Paz, 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.”

According to Time, “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.” 

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