Yanira Maldonado wasn’t trying to stir the pot. She may not have even been trying to smoke it. But nevertheless, yesterday Maldonado was jailed at a Mexican checkpoint 90-miles from the border carrying 12lbs of marijuana that Mexican authorities are saying she tried to smuggle. Naturally, her family claims she’s being framed.

Supposedly she and her husband Gary were returning from the funeral of her aunt last Wednesday when the bus they were on was stopped at a military checkpoint. The authorities proceeded to search the bus and found the weed underneath her seat. Oddly enough, the Mexican agents then offered Gary Maldonado $5,000 for her immediate release, which as a law-abiding Arizona citizen, he refused.

According to Gawker, Gary then “raised the $5,000 by the next day, but by then it was too late; Yanira Maldonado had been transferred to a jail in Nogales, where her husband visited her on Saturday.”

Gary was able to confirm that two witnesses testified on behalf of the Maldonados and his brother in-law Brandon Klippel, as well as their children, have made sincere pleas through the media that their beloved Yanira is innocent and should be freed.

The Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C. released a statement saying that Yanira Maldonado’s “rights to a defense counsel and due process are being observed” which must come as even the slightest bit of relief as Gary and the rest of the family are reportedly terrified of losing Yanira in the unpredictable Mexican judicial system where prisoners are known to have been transferred from cell to cell without keeping much of a record of it.

CNN is currently reporting that Yanira is due in court today.

Stay tuned to BostInno on the latest from this story, because it surely has yet to be broken open. There are so many holes and so many just bizarre details that this seems like it was pirated from a Broken Lizards movie. How did they not know they were carrying marijuana? Whose could it be? Was it a rental bus or some kind of public transportation?