Nurse Practitioner Freed From Macedonia Jail

Candace “Candi” Dunlap

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) –  A Meridian nurse practitioner who serves on the OCH Regional staff is heading home after being convicted of violating Macedonia’s anti smuggling laws.

Candi Dunlap received a two year suspended sentence and is banned from Macedonia for ten years after a Macedonia judge ruled Dunlap tried to leave the country with more than 200 rare coins plus some pottery.

Dunlap maintains she was given the coins and other artifiacts by a Macedonian citisen while she was in the  country as part of a mission team from a Merdian church.