The group earlier had been embarrassed by several strange developments involving their legal team.
First, one of their Haitian lawyers was fired for allegedly seeking $60,000 to try to bribe their way out of jail.
But the legal adviser from the Dominican Republic who advised relatives of the group the fire that lawyer turned out to himself be a fugitive from justice.
Jorge Puello, who had called up Silsby’s Meridian, Idaho, church offering his services after the missionaries’ arrest and initially served as their legal adviser and spokesman turned out to be wanted on people-smuggling charges in the United States and El Salvador.
U.S. marshals say they are hunting for Puello, who is wanted on an Interpol warrant out of El Salvador, where police say he led a ring that lured young women and girls into prostitution.

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