KITCHENER, Ontario, May 2 (UPI) -- A Canadian woman held in a Mexican prison for more than two years without trial on fraud charges was celebrating her first day home in a Canadian jail Friday.
Brenda Martin, 51, was released from a Guadalajara prison Thursday and flown to Kitchener, Ontario, northwest of Toronto, after intensive diplomatic efforts, the Canwest News Service reported.
Martin worked as a chef for a man convicted in a multimillion-dollar Internet fraud scam, and was arrested for complicity in the scheme in February 2006. She denied any knowledge of the scam, and her ex-boss, Alyn Waage swore in an affidavit from a U.S. prison she had no role in the fraud.
Regardless, Mexican officials held her in prison until heightening media focus in recent months led the Canadian government to expedite her transfer.
The report said Martin will spend between one and three weeks at the prison before being released into the care of her mother in Trenton, Ontario, as Canada considers her jail time in Mexico a sentence served.
