The Ten-Year Fugitive

A woman from a foreign country was named in a drug indictment. It accused her of a plot to make cocaine abroad, ship it into the country and sell it. She stayed abroad for years. Agents later spotted her in another state but waited to arrest her, saying they needed to protect an informant and an investigation into her sons. She was finally arrested carrying false identity papers, about ten years after the indictment. She argues the ten-year delay denied her right to a speedy trial and that the case must be thrown out.