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Mexico federal judge orders immediate release of jailed US Marine veteran being held on weapons charge - @UTsandiego


4:55 p.m.Oct. 31, 2014

TIJUANA � A Mexican federal district judge in Tijuana on Friday ordered the immediate release of a U.S. Marine veteran behind bars in Baja California on federal weapons charges.

Andrew Tahmooressi was on trial for crossing the border with ammunition and three loaded weapon on March 31. The Mexican Attorney General�s Office agreed to cease its prosecution of Tahmooressi and allow him to return to the United States.

The agreement brings to a close a high-profile case that has resounded far beyond the border. In the United States, it has prompted calls for his release from politicians, veterans groups, conservative talk show hosts. But for months there had been an impasse, as Mexican federal prosecutors insisted that the case be resolved through the courts -- not through diplomatic or political pressure.

Tahmooressi, 26, claims that he drove into Tijuana by mistake on a Monday night after taking a wrong turn near the Mexican border in San Ysidro. He recently had moved from Florida to San Diego, and says that he was driving out of a parking lot, intending to head north. But instead he drove into the El Chaparral Port of Entry, where Mexican customs inspectors examined his pickup truck and found more 400 rounds of ammunition and three loaded firearms: a 45-caliber pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and a 5.56mm assault rifle.

His release from El Hongo State Penitentiary outside Tecate was ordered by Judge Victor Octavio Luna Escobedo of the Sixth Federal District Court in Tijuana. Had Tahmooressi been convicted, he would have faced from seven to 21 years behind bars.

Even though the U.S. State Department reports that dozens of U.S. citizens are arrested each month for violating Mexico�s gun laws, few if any cases have gotten such wide attention.

Tahmooressi�s situation initially elicited little public sympathy in Mexico, where there is no constitutional right to bear arms. A headline last May in the Tijuana newsweekly, Zeta read: "He did not enter Mexico in error." But his detention did strike a nerve with some sectors in the United States intent on seeing him released.
photoThe weapons and ammunition confiscated from Andrew's Tahmooressi's vehicle.

Portraying Tahmooressi as a U.S. war hero unjustly detained in a foreign country, they invoked his military service � two tours of duty in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines, with an honorable discharge in 2012, and stressed that Tahmooressi needed to return to the United States for treatment. Shortly before his arrest he had been diagnosed with PTSD and started treatment at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in La Jolla.

�I firmly believe that Sgt. Tahmooressi meant no harm, nor willfully violated Mexican law when he crossed the border,� said Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., chair of a House subcommittee that held a hearing last month to call attention to the case.

Ben�tez, his Tijuana defense attorney, used a range of tactics to win his release. He initially pressed for dismissal of the case on the grounds that his client�s rights were allegedly violated when he was held at the El Chaparral Port of Entry for hours without the presence of an attorney or a translator.


http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/...leased-mexico/

Good for his lawyer!

I can't believe I said that....

Great news!

It's about time.

Any administration with any balls would have sent half the Corp down there to pick him up on 1 April. We are the biggest, baddest, dog on the block and should by God act like it!

Wonder how many cartel members were released for this.

Horsechit

Anybody know what this is about?
From the UT San Diego piece, "The Tijuana newsweekly, Zeta, was the first to report that on the day of his arrest, Tahmooressi had walked into Mexico from San Ysidro, and rented a room at the Hotel Nelson near the border, paying 309 pesos � about $24. He did not stay overnight, instead walking back across to San Ysidro, retrieving his truck at a parking lot � and driving into Mexico."

Bout friggin time.

Now give them back their 30 million bastards.....

Funny how the pres or Eric Holder didn't press Mexico on this. If they had, he would have been out a long time ago.

And elections are when?

My take on alla' this is that on a fairly high diplomatic level, Mexico was advised that cancellation of a serious media storm involving the ONGOING and commonly known (at a LOCAL leveL) incidents including , but not limited to those below were 'Traded" for the fellow's release.

As noted ,.....LOCAL news, the sorta' stuff that the majority of you out there no longer hear much about.

.....which doesn't mean it stopped, or "went away"




Arizona Border Patrol agent involved in deadly shooting

link: http://www.abc15.com/news/region-ce...-patrol-agent-involved-in-fatal-shooting

TUCSON, AZ - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed an armed suspect on Friday about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, authorities said.

The shooting occurred as two agents conducted a standard surveillance effort known as sign cutting in which agents search for footprints in the desert.

It's unclear how the agents encountered the suspect and companions, but agents are known to patrol the desert area near the Pascua Yaqui reservation in Pima County.

"Agents recovered multiple weapons and no injuries to the agents involved have been reported," Border Patrol spokeswoman Nicole Ballistrea said.

The shooting took place near residential neighborhoods. Authorities said the suspect killed was a man, but his name wasn't immediately released.

Neither agent was hurt, according to authorities.

Ballistrea said agents continued to search for others who fled the scene.

Officers from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine had just finished a media demonstration in Nogales near the Mariposa Port of Entry when they responded to the shooting.

The FBI was named the lead investigative agency with CBP's internal affairs also looking into the death.

Man killed in Border Patrol shooting was Mexican

Link: http://tucson.com/news/man-killed-i...fc42ac2-3a96-57a4-93b2-6945fbca301d.html

The man shot and killed southwest of Tucson Friday morning by a Border Patrol agent has been identified as 23-year-old Edgar Amaro L�pez.

Amaro L�pez, a Mexico national, died of a single gunshot to the head, data from the Pima County Medical Examiner�s Office show. No other information has been released about the incident.

The FBI, the lead agency in the case, said it is still looking for additional suspects and is investigating the case as an assault on a federal officer.

Mexican Consulate officials in Tucson said in a written statement that their office has been in touch with relatives of Amaro L�pez to offer them assistance and will continue to follow the investigation.

Amaro L�pez was armed with at least a pistol and was wearing a bullet-proof vest and carpet booties � shoe covers with carpet soles to erase footprints � said Jim Calle, an attorney representing the agent who shot Amaro L�pez. The agent has not been identified.

The general area east of West Valencia Road and Arizona 86 near where the shooting happened has become a notorious smuggling route, Calle said, despite there being neighborhoods and a casino nearby.

�The crew operating out there is known to be aggressive and abrasive,� he said. �There had been some additional incidents out there indicating the group is operating out there day and night.�

Two agents were after several men in the area of West Hermans and South Sandario roads on Friday morning when one of the men tried to shoot one of the agents, Sean Chapman, an attorney who is representing the other agent, has said.

�One agent fired his weapon in response to being threatened by the man with a sidearm,� he said. �The other members of the group ran off, and then agents found rifles on the ground in the area.�

This is third fatal shooting of the year involving the Border Patrol.

Jos� Luis Arambula, 31, was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent on May 30 during a foot chase in Green Valley.

Two agents were chasing Arambula when they said he turned toward them and appeared to be �punching out� � described as a motion someone would make if they were holding a gun with two hands.

And on Jan. 16, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 31-year-old Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez, who officials said was hiding under a tree. They said he began to fight with the agent when they agent tried to apprehend him and tried to take his gun.

The agents in those earlier cases were cleared of any wrongdoing.

EXACTLY!

How damn convenient....

which if we reverse engineer this.... it would indicate that Obama allowed him to be detained in jail, the entire time, until Elections rolled around...

My feelings, exactly. Let the guy just sit it out till he can be used to an advantage. What a piece of crap.

Chitty way to say thanks for your service.

Glad he is back home. It seems like Arizona rep. Salmon had been putting pressure on the Mexican AG for his release.

Ernie

Eggs Zachary!!