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San Diego Union-Tribune
June 1, 2008
EL PASO, Texas – A U.S. soldier held in a Mexican jail for more than a month on weapons charges has been released, Mexican authorities said.
Spc. Richard Torres was arrested April 21 after he said he accidentally crossed the border in El Paso with an AR-15 assault rifle, a .45-caliber handgun and 171 bullets in his car.
A jail spokesman in Ciudad Juarez said Torres, a 25-year-old Iraq war veteran, was released to U.S. authorities Friday. Torres had faced a gun-possession charge. Federal investigators have concluded that Torres, who was transferring to an Army unit based in Honduras when he was arrested, wasn't smuggling weapons into Mexico to sell them.
--Associated Press
June 1, 2008
EL PASO, Texas – A U.S. soldier held in a Mexican jail for more than a month on weapons charges has been released, Mexican authorities said.
Spc. Richard Torres was arrested April 21 after he said he accidentally crossed the border in El Paso with an AR-15 assault rifle, a .45-caliber handgun and 171 bullets in his car.
A jail spokesman in Ciudad Juarez said Torres, a 25-year-old Iraq war veteran, was released to U.S. authorities Friday. Torres had faced a gun-possession charge. Federal investigators have concluded that Torres, who was transferring to an Army unit based in Honduras when he was arrested, wasn't smuggling weapons into Mexico to sell them.
--Associated Press