A Utah family’s Colorado nightmare moved closer to a happy ending Thursday. A $25,000 bond was approved for violinist John Shin, who had been picked up by Homeland Security agents in Colorado Springs on Aug. 17. He has been facing possible deportation at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora ever since.

“Right now, I feel elated, because we believe that any minute now, he is going to be released,” Shin’s wife, Danae Snow, told The Denver Gazette a few hours earlier while she was driving to the Salt Lake City airport in anticipation of his release.

“But it's probably been the hardest two weeks of my life.”

Shin was released at around 5 p.m., with a follow-up hearing to be held next week in Salt Lake City.

Shin’s attorney, Adam Crayk, said the process is only just beginning fo

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