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Accused Americans could be stuck in Brazil for months
Updated 7/9/2009 3:31 PM
By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY
Three U.S. graduate students arrested last month for suspected poaching and visa violations could be stranded in a remote corner of Brazil for months as their case goes through the courts, their lawyer says.
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"University of Arizona geoscientists Michael McGlue, 31, and Mark Trees, 48, and University of Minnesota-Duluth student Kelly Wendt, 26, were arrested by federal police June 16 while working on a climate change project with the University of the State of Sao Paulo. The Americans spent eight nights in jail before being released on bail June 26. Police confiscated their passports as well as computers, research equipment, cellphones and cash."
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"State Department spokeswoman Laura Tischler said U.S. diplomats had spoken with the men but suggested there was little they could do.
"The traveler really needs to check what the requirements are by checking the embassy websites," she said. "Once you travel and are in another country, you are subject to local law." "
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