Thread: U.S. soldier held in Mexico after crossing border with weapo

This is just ANOTHER of Mexico's MANY shenanigans to SNARE innocent Americans and thus engage in yet ANOTHER power play!

Dis he lose something because of the war? It baffles me that he would want to go to Juarez for breakfast with all that has been happening in Mexico. I'm sorry, it just seems a little fishy.

I agree. Why Juarez? That place is NOT where I'd be going for a nice breakfast or anything else for that matter.
But, as Chosen said-this soldier's reasons are irrelevent. I hope he gets back safe!

What is the status on this?

Torres, an Iraq war veteran who was heading to his mother's house in Fresno, Calif., said that after driving all night from Fort Hood

Was he in uniform, I wonder ?

It is illegal to bring guns or ammunition and some types of knives into Mexico, and weapons offenses can result in lengthy prison sentences.

The hyprocracy is too much !

Originally Posted by Nicie

Torres, an Iraq war veteran who was heading to his mother's house in Fresno, Calif., said that after driving all night from Fort Hood

Was he in uniform, I wonder ?

[quote:3kb6xa5f]It is illegal to bring guns or ammunition and some types of knives into Mexico, and weapons offenses can result in lengthy prison sentences.

The hyprocracy is too much ![/quote:3kb6xa5f]

His haircut would've been a dead give away.

He probably had a sticker on his windshield from a military base.

They need more guns in Mexico in the hands of the citizens that are law abiding. Right now Mexico is a blood bath and the cartels and government have all the guns and bullets and the murder and execution rate is sky high.

If the power and the guns were in the hands of the people, things might improve.

W

Published Saturday | April 26, 2008
US soldier to stand trial in Mexico
The Associated Press
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1 ... d=10320777

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - A U.S. soldier has been arrested in Mexico and ordered to stand trial after he was caught entering the country with a pistol, a rifle and ammunition.

Twenty-five-year-old Spc. Richard R. Medina Torres was arrested Monday. On Saturday, a judge ordered him held for trial on charges equivalent to smuggling and weapons possession.

Medina Torres has called the case a misunderstanding. He said he entered Mexico with his personal weapons by mistake after taking a wrong turn on the highway. He says "I just want to go home."

Mexico has strict gun-control laws and is plagued by increasing drug-related violence. Mexican officials say most weapons used by drug gangs come from the United States.

I dare the Mexicans to do anything about this. I can tell you that if anything happens to this guy, people will pay the price. It will not be forgotten. We have not, nor will we ever leave our soldiers to the kangaroo courts of barbarian mogrels. The article is propagandistic because it spend a few lines diffusing things. Whether Mexico has problems with guns doesn't matter. Laws are not to be enforced or ignored based on current social feelings. They are intending to take away culpability from the Mexican authorities. They lured him into the country!
He asked them where he could turn around, they told him, then arrested him. Snively cowards.

Again, I would say he should have just laid into them with his m4, come to our side and sorted it out. The Mexicans gave up any rights they have by pushing for amnesty and promoting the breaking of our laws and the erosion of our soveriegnty. So there would be no way he would be sent back across.

Mexico should be warned that if anything at all happens to this soldier they will pay a dear price.

Car full of weapons lands US soldier in Mexican jail




Associated Press - May 9, 2008 7:45 AM ET

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A U.S. soldier remains in jail in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after he says he mistakenly drove across the Mexican border with firearms in his car.

Specialist Richard Torres was carrying a small arsenal in his car: An AR-15 assault rifle, a .45-caliber handgun, 171 rounds of ammunition, several cartridges and three knives.

The Fort Hood soldier didn't try to hide the weapons when he reached a Mexican border checkpoint. But he insisted he hadn't meant to cross the border with the guns, which in Mexico are restricted for use only by the military. He says he was looking for parking in El Paso when he inadvertently drove onto a bridge leading to Mexico and couldn't turn around.

Juarez is a border city where drug cartels pay top dollar for exactly the kind of high-powered weapons Torres had in his car. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded that Torres wasn't smuggling weapons into Mexico to sell them.

But the Iraq war veteran continues to wait for a Mexican judge to decide whether to accept his account. Mexican prosecutors have said only that the arrest reflects the government's commitment to battling "every type of delinquency and organized crime."

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