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Two grandparents Michigan detained in Mexico For more than a month, the Timeshare controversy finally goes home after their daughter asked for free.
Christie Akea, 60, and the 58th Paul Akea who live in Spring gazebo, Michigan, They were held in Ceres, Cancun, the prison for 32 days as they went there on vacation earlier this month and were arrested by the Mexican authorities, as their daughter and lawyer told Fox News Digital.
“Akea’s family wants to thank President Donald J. Trump, his special messenger for the affairs of Adam Boler and Congressman Tom Barrett (R-Minn.) For the relentlessly, the way of the polo and Christie Akea,” said their daughter and son-in-law Lemke Hel and Michael Lemke. “We also want to express our deep gratitude to Secretary of State Mark Rubio, Mark Kulid Johnson, accused D” affairs, the mission of the US Embassy Mexico and his devoted team. “
They added that after the “four straight weeks of uncertainty”, the barre committee’s commitment to helping Akeos home is safe to return them “hope and assurance”.
Paul and Christie Akea signed an agreement on Mexico Timeshare in 2021. (Material)
“(Barrett) traveled to Cancun with great personal risk, housed in prison and made it clear that he would not return home without them,” Hals said. “His heroic efforts as a veteran are the best traditions of the military of our country to never leave the American behind.”
“No American should be hostage to the private company’s requirements where -in the world”
Earlier on Wednesday, Barrett’s representative told Fox News Digital that he went to Mexico to visit the Akeos in prison and push his release, learning about their deterioration.
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Interpol Red Alce was issued to facilitate the couple’s arrest. (FGE)
“It is enough. Having spent almost a month in Mexican prison, the maximum security for what means a contractual dispute on time, the Mexican conditions have long released Paul and Christie,” Barrett said.
Currently, Akeos receives help from doctors and therapists.
“We ask that their privacy respect when they are resting and cured. The family will say much more about this test in the coming days,” Hals said.
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On March 4, Christie and Paul drove to the Islands resort. Mexican authorities arrested them upon arrival and accused of fraud for disputes with credit card charges arising from the Taimhar, which they purchased in 2021 at another resort in Cancun.
Panoramic views on the CANCUN City city zone in Mexico. (Istock)
“The place they are in is hell,” said Prosecutor John Manley earlier, who told Fox News Digital about the prison conditions. “It is filled with members of the cartel, drug dealers, rapists, murderers. Imagine it’s like every day. For this grandmother and veteran who just wanted to go on vacation.
They were detained in connection with a dispute with their Timeshar, acquired through a resort company called Palace Elite Resorts, which has different resort objects in Mexico and has offices in Florida. In 2021, Akeos purchased CANCun Timeshare for $ 6,932 a month for 11 years.
Paul and Christie Akea have been detained in Mexico within a few weeks after a temporary dispute. (Material)
In June 2022, Paul filed a complaint to the American Express, claiming that the palace violated their contract and did not provide goods and services for which they paid through the American Express Card Paul, challenged by Palace Elite Resorts.
American Express investigated the complaint and sided with Akeos, issuing more than $ 116,000 more than $ 116,000 in September, their lawyer said.
Palace, local Mexican media and authorities in Mexico told about another story about Akeos, saying they cheated on a hotel campaign with more than $ 100,000.
Paul Akea-21-year-old veteran of the Navy and a police officer Michigan. (Material)
Mexican officials say Akeos signed its contract at Timeshare in 2021, but in 2022 the hotel received 13 canceled transactions related to Paul’s credit card for a total amount of $ 116,587, or more than 2.4 million pesos, according to a press release by the Prosecutor General Rouo.
Palace reported Fox News Digital in a statement that “between 2016 to 2021, Akeos deliberately and willingly concluded 19 separate membership agreements with Palace Elite (attached), investing more than $ 1.4 million in exchange for exclusive benefits and rates designed for personal use.”
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“In 2021,” – continued the campaign, “they were recognized in a significant violation of these agreements after promoting and profit from their benefits on social media – the postings that are clearly prohibited in accordance with the conditions they agreed. They were officially informed about the violation, and in April 2022 they signed a refusal, and confessing their violation, or “.
The State Department knows about the detention of Christie and Paul Akeos in Mexico. (Material)
After signing the refusals, the Palace company allegedly, Akeos “began to challenge the membership charges in its credit card campaigns.”
“These disputes – despite the fact that they actively used services – were provided, which led to more than $ 100,000 in the return payments and significant financial damage to the Elite Palace,” the palace company said.
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The elite palace filed a criminal complaint in August 2023.
On Thursday, December 2, 2021, members of the National Guard patrol beach in the hotel zone of Cancun, Quinton -u, Mexico. (Cesar Rodriguez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Akeos lawyer, responding to the palace’s statement, said Crista wrote a representative of the palace on April 8, 2022, saying that she and the Paul “still believed that we did nothing wrong to break our contract, but feels that the palace did not give us another way out, except for signing documents, though it is against our better opinion.”
“We love the resorts of the palace and miss it if they couldn’t go,” she wrote at the time.
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Her lawyer said there was a dispute about whether Akeos has the right to sell and sell his “weeks” at the resort to third parties, but they believe that the case should be resolved in a civil lawsuit and should not have been caused by Akeos.
American Express did not respond to the Fox News Digital request.
