During a virtual detention hearing, the judge agreed with Papini's attorney that she wasn't a flight risk or a threat to the community.
The mother accused of faking her own kidnapping appeared before a judge in a California court.
In arguing against her release, Assistant U.S. Attorney Veronica Alegria said when FBI agents tried to arrest Papini last week,"she screamed 'no' and ran away from them and resisted arrest." Her attorney said Papini was running toward her children. Papini, of Redding, was found on Thanksgiving Day in 2016 after three weeks of searching in California and several nearby states. She had bindings on her body and injuries including a swollen nose and a"brand" on her right shoulder.
She told authorities that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Hispanic women, even providing descriptions to an FBI sketch artist along with extensive details of her purported abduction.