By Mort Amsel (Reporter)
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The U.S. Marine, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who has been held in a Mexican prison on weapons charges has been ordered been ordered back to prison by a Mexican judge, after his first full court appearance Wednesday.

 

Tahmooressi has now been imprisoned in Mexico for a total of 101 days, with little American action to retrieve him, except for a letter sent Wednesday by a group of U.S. bipartisan lawmakers requesting his immediate return.  The news of Mexico’s decision to prosecute him was released that same day.

 

The 26-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan, who was being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder related to his combat, says he accidentally crossed a California border checkpoint late March 31 and could not turn around before reaching the Mexican government checkpoint. Tahmooressi had been in San Diego for treatment related to his PTSD and had all his possessions in his car, after having just moved from Florida.  At the checkpoint, he declared his three-registered weapons to agents at the border, however Mexican authorities chose to charge him with violating their gun laws regardless.

 

 

You would be surprised how often this happens and considering all the shadiness surrounding the southern border, cartels, cia, gun running, drug running, black ops and so forth, I can’t help but wonder if there is more to this story than meets the eye.  Maybe that is just me being suspicious and paranoid but you have to take it in to account at least.  It does look like he is on the up and up and him having PTSD helps his story.  I hope for his safe return to the United States and that he continues to get treated for PTSD.  

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