American Held in Bolivia Tied to Embassy

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

American Held in Bolivia Tied to Embassy

Thursday June 28, 2007 8:01 PM

By DAN KEANE

Associated Press Writer

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - An American woman with ties to the U.S.
Embassy was detained at the La Paz airport for attempting to
enter Bolivia with 500 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition, officials
said Thursday. Donna Thi, 20, was taken into custody by
Bolivian immigration officials Wednesday night.

“An American citizen related to the embassy was carrying bullets
on an American airliner, mocking all the security mechanisms,”
Immigration Director Magaly Zegarra told Bolivian media Thursday,
in remarks broadcast by local radio stations.

“This is evidence, effectively, that someone could be orchestrating
something against our country from outside.”

Zegarra said that Thi was met at the airport by Zanbria Campbell,
wife of a military liaison at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Col. James
Campbell.

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