Hood GI arrested in Mexico with weapons in car

[unhappycamper]

Hood GI arrested in Mexico with weapons in car
By Alicia A. Caldwell - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 17:02:15 EDT

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A teary-eyed American soldier accused of illegally driving guns and ammunition into Mexico said Tuesday he was just looking for a place to park so he could walk into Mexico for breakfast after a long night of driving.

Instead, Army Spc. Richard R. Medina Torres steered his 1999 Honda Prelude off Interstate 10, over an international bridge, and into Mexico.

“It was just an accident, I didn’t mean to drive over here,” Torres said Tuesday afternoon standing in a hallway of the Mexican federal building where he has been jailed since Monday morning.

Torres, an Iraq war veteran who was heading to his mother’s house in Fresno, Calif., said after driving all night from Fort Hood he planned to park his car at the border and walk into Juarez for breakfast. But he misunderstood directions from an El Paso gas station attendant, took the wrong exit, and wound up in Mexico.

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Torres, who doesn’t speak any Spanish, said they started asking if he had drugs or guns. He said he immediately told them he was traveling with an AR-15 assault rifle and a .45-caliber handgun.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_hoodsoldier_arrested_042208/

[soothsayer]

1. Poor kid. I hope they get him out.