US Woman Facing Drug Charge Released in Mexico

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9. Mr Maldonado said that the man sitting behind them and the drugs, fled the scene.

It seems rather odd that the man was allowed to flee while at a security checkpoint. Any security checkpoint I have ever been through had people with guns watching every move.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/56388707-68/maldonado-bus-mexico-gary.html.csp

The bus passed through at least two checkpoints on the way to the border without incident. In the town of Querobabi 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.

Gary Maldonado said a man sitting behind them on the bus fled during the inspection. He believes the man might have been the true owner of the drugs.

So one of the passengers fled during the inspection and no one else even noticed it, and there is no follow up on it? Maybe it is only in this article and just something Mormons want to believe.