Mexico Jails Marine Vet Who Says He Strayed Across Border with Weapons McClatchy Newspapers
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United States Marine jailed in Mexico (ABC15 Arizona)

MEXICO CITY — Prison authorities in Tijuana, Mexico, have shackled a decorated Marine Corps veteran of two combat tours in Afghanistan to his cot in a prison infirmary, restraining each of his limbs, on charges of introducing outlawed weapons into Mexico.

The Marine reservist, Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, of Weston, Fla., near Miami, drove his black Ford F-150 pickup through the San Ysidro, Calif., border crossing into Tijuana on April 1, carrying his worldly possessions, including three U.S.-registered firearms.

Tahmooressi, who suffers from what his mother calls “directional dysfunction,” got lost near the border after dark. He and his family say he took a wrong turn into Mexico.

Mexican prosecutors have slapped three firearms charges on him, and his fate has been clouded by an attempt to escape the La Mesa penitentiary on April 6 that involved ninja-style scaling of a wall topped with coiled barbed wire.

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