the king either by ripping up money major, major offense because it has the king s photo on it or other member of the royal family. and again, antiquitieantiquitie buy things that turn out to be an antiquity, particularly in turkey, and they are arrested. it can be a very serious crime. there are other things like that which are violations of local laws and customs that really get people locked up abroad and without any hope unless they have a good lawyer. all right. dick atkins, just excellent information there. and good advice. i want to remind our viewers locked up abroad is on wednesday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on national geographic. you can get more tips on that show. i see some people say too, the lady in mexico, if she had not been a religious respectable mother of seven, she might not have gotten the headlines. and a lot of people aren t
coming up, the evidence that set her free. and three killed in syria, one a woman, how she reportedly became a rebel fighter. a live report coming up. and could the murder case against the blade runner but e be in jeopardy? leaked photos from oscar pistorius s home are now posted online. welcome to around the world. i m suzanne malveaux. and i m michael holmes. thanks for your company this friday. an arizona mother on her way home after more than a week in a mexican jail, what a story this has been, yanira maldonado, she walked out of jail in nogales, mexico, overnight a free woman. this was on charges of smuggling marijuana. her family insisted from the very beginning that she was innocent. rafael romo, he is in nogales, arizona, just across the mexican border. rafael, tell us, she is free, but the legal process is not completely over. what happens for her next?
slammer? yanira maldonado, she was released in mexico, that happened late last night. her attorney was able to show the drug smuggling allegations against her were not true. while she was still behind bars, maldonado said she really had second thoughts on travm traveling to mexico. i used to tell people, come to mexico, it s not true what they re saying. i go every year to visit my family. and look what s happening to me now. our legal expert and a spokesman for the show locked up abroad which is on the national geographic channel, dick, good to see you. how common is it for someone to get detained in a place like mexico? it s very frequent. however, there are so many people, millions of people traveling there that the percentage is infinitesimal, but because there are so many people, there are hundreds of people who are arrested who are americans every year. and not all of them get out so quickly as this woman did.
people would say you re crazy, you re this, you re that, and look what s happening to me now. i cannot say that anymore. key piece of evidence was presented today in court. a videotape which showed maldonado and her husband actually boarding the bus. rafael romo was in the courtroom, he saw the video. he joins us now tonight. so you were one of the few journalists who actually saw the security video from the checkpoint. what does it show? reporter: anderson, this was probably the most important and dramatic day for the defense. the video shows the maldonados, both gary and yanira, boarding a bus. they re only carrying two blankets, two bottles of water and a purse. and the defense is saying that it is impossible that they would have been able to hide more than 12 pounds of marijuana and go unnoticed. so from the defense perspective, this is the nail in the coffin.
through what they have experienced what they ve experienced and remain faithful and steadfast again. thank you to all who join with us to bring yanira home and we thank you, our heavenly father, fonswe our prayers. and that is our statement. i m not sure now whether we ll hear from the family, there we go, yanira is sitting down with her husband, gary maldonado. let s listen to what they have to say. we ll start with some questions, guys. fire away. all right. obviously, the questions and answers are in spanish.