US congressman seeks release of Marine veteran jailed for driving into Mexico with guns

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44. As the man said when he came across three deep holes containing water

Well, well, well!

Marine admits being in Mexico before arrest

A U.S. Marine sergeant jailed in Mexico since late March for crossing the border with several guns in his car said Friday that he had walked across the border on foot and stayed at a Tijuana hotel earlier on the day of his arrest.

"I stayed in a hotel earlier in the day," Tahmooressi said Friday in an interview with CNN's New Day. "I parked my truck at a parking lot on the American side...and I walk into Mexico with a backpack...I decide to go hang out in Mexico for some good Mexican food, inexpensive place to stay and to hang out."

And around 10:30PM that night, he decided it would be safe to go back the American side and drive his guns over the border, eh?

Asked about Mexican media reports that he had crossed the border into Mexico several times before his March 31 arrest, Tahmooressi told CNN in a telephone interview from La Mesa penitentiary in Tijuana that he had previously traveled there four times "just to hang out."

He denied crossing the border with the intent of trafficking arms. He had an AR-15 rifle, a .45-caliber pistol and a 12-gauge pump shotgun in his truck.

Poor thing -- if he were still in Afghanistan, he could claim he was on a special security detail. I thought his mother had protested too much. Well (if you'll pardon the expression), it was fun while it lasted.

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