A Michigan couple held in a Mexican maximum security prison for a month over a timeshare dispute have filed suit against a resort, claiming it “weaponized” the Cancun judicial system and coerced them to sign an NDA while armed guards stood watching, court papers show.

Paul and Christy Akeo claim Palace Resorts LLC brought bogus criminal charges to retaliate against them for a since-resolved $100,000 dispute over timeshares — and to get back at Christy for her involvement in a private Facebook group with over 8,000 members, many of whom were alleged victims of the resort’s shady “timeshare tactics,” according to a lawsuit filed by the Akeos Friday.

The resort began a “secret lawfare campaign” against the couple for disputing 13 credit card charges totaling $116,587 — which the credi

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