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When you unknowingly break a law and victimized nobody and had a good reason for what you were doing and tried to do the right thing at the border and the foreign nation you are in is an ally who receives huge amounts of American aid, I would think they could expedite getting you released. It's not quite as simple as just "do the crime, do the time".
Nah, doesn't work like that the other way. Let a Mexican soldier get caught here with a gun or committing a crime. He'll get NO support from anybody here. He'll be deamonized. Americans always try to exert priviledge even over other soverign nations.
He should have checked with the Mexican customs officials. US customs officials deal with US laws.
Yep, reminds of the truck driver, driving a truck loaded with ammunition. He took a wrong turn in El Paso and ended up on the Bridge of the Americas headed to Mexico. He stopped his truck on the bridge and tried to back up. The Border Patrol arrived, and told him to go into Mexico and turn around. Bad advice.
Try reading the facts of the case before spouting off showing your ignorance.
He should've known the law...You break it, you go to jail. If you're not going to respect the country you're going into enough to research their laws especially gun laws than oh well...
Yep, reminds of the truck driver, driving a truck loaded with ammunition. He took a wrong turn in El Paso and ended up on the Bridge of the Americas headed to Mexico. He stopped his truck on the bridge and tried to back up. The Border Patrol arrived, and told him to go into Mexico and turn around. Bad advice.
You missed some details: Jabin was way over on the west side of El Paso (with the next delivery in Phoenix), and meandered around 12 miles (he said his GPS was broken, but did not call his boss) back towards the border. He said a truck prevented him changing lanes, forcing him to take an exit towards Mexico. The story (which CBP denies) was that someone in a blue uniform (CBP officers are dressed in black, and would have been stationed right at the u-turn gate) directed him to turn around in Mexico.
He tried to turn around within the truck inspection area (which you can't do), and told inspectors he had nothing to declare. Only then did he call his boss. Demco Expresss (Jabin's trucker employment) was exposed by his bad driving, and on review was shut down for a few months for having ten drivers that were not licensed for trucks!
If Jabin would have been off a "Hazardous Cargo" route in the United States, when something would have happened to that load of ammo, there wouldn't have been support saying he was so innocent (Jabin had been to prison in the U.S., and has an 18-page rap sheet here). He's not a very good truck driver, but he lies quite a bit. There's been a lawsuit against Demco Express, because the load was lost and not insured properly.
I am happy for Jon Hammar - He won't be able to live this down (his parents called him "their precious boy"), and might starting thinking a little bit harder at the next chance to be stupid...
I am happy for Jon Hammar - He won't be able to live this down (his parents called him "their precious boy"), and might starting thinking a little bit harder at the next chance to be stupid...
A veteran that willingly committed a crime in a foreign country. Is the President supposed to personally beg for the release of every American that becomes a criminal in another country?
LOL, reminds me when Clinton spoke up for that little American snot who was going to be publicly caned for breaking the law in an Asian country. Vandalism, IIRC.
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