By C1 Staff
EAST TIMOR — An Oregon woman traveling alone in East Timor ended up in the wrong cab, which took her to prison.
KY3 reports that Stacey Addison wound up in the crosshairs of a drug sting when she shared a cab with another passenger who asked to pick up a package at a DHL office.
A tip from Indonesian authorities had police watching the cab, who stopped and searched it. They eventually found methamphetamine inside the package.
Everyone inside the cab was arrested.
“I was held in the Dill Detention Center for four nights, then released after an initial hearing,” Addison posted on her Facebook page. “The judge ordered that my passport be held until further investigations have been completed.”
She was conditionally released on Sept. 9, but not allowed to leave the country. Addison was told that prosecutors needed her as a witness in an investigation that could take over a year.
Addison appeared in court again on Oct. 29 and then was jailed again without warning or explanation. There she spent five days in solitary confinement.
It’s unclear when she’ll be released, and in response her mother has started a Facebook page to help free her daughter.
She posted an update on Nov. 1, saying that Addison was currently in an ‘induction’ period and was thus left alone for five days. She has since been moved to the Female Unit of the facility.
“I am trying to keep busy and keep the anxiety at bay, but uncertainty is always there,” Addison wrote in an Oct. 19 Facebook post. “This isn’t how I had imagined I would be spending my time during the trip of a lifetime. I hope it is all over soon.”