Supporters of Washington State Vigilante Call for Her Release in Mexico The Associated Press
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Nestora Salgado speaks to community members at a gathering in Olinalá, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, before she went to prison. (Facebook)

Relatives and supporters of a jailed vigilante leader who holds dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship said Tuesday that she and her community police force never demanded bail for or mistreated the prisoners in their care.

Nestora Salgado, a resident of the Seattle suburb of Renton, was arrested in August 2013 after people detained by the community force she leads in the southern state of Guerrero alleged that they had been kidnapped. A federal judge cleared Salgado of those charges last year, but related state charges have kept her locked up.

Salgado's fellow commanders said during a news conference in Mexico City that the force in the town of Olinala never demanded bail money, which her accusers called ransom. The commanders said many of those detained were youths held at the request of their parents for "re-education."

"The communitarian system does not request any bail," said regional community police commander Cruz Morales Reyes. "It does not request any ransom. There is no amount of money that can get someone out."

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