Haiti detains Americans taking kids across border (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sun, 01/31/2010 - 2:12am

American citizen Laura Silsby, 40, of Boise, Idaho, speaks as Nicole Lankford, left, 18, of Middleton, Idaho and Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridian, Idaho listen during an interview with the Associated Press at police headquarters at the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010.<br /><br />Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti.




 

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