Mexican Judge Releases U.S. Marine Reservist
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 1st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Mexican Judge Releases U.S. Marine Reservist
Marine reservist Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, jailed in Mexico on gun charges since March, was ordered released by a judge in Mexico and the charges were dismissed Friday. The 26-year-old reservist was arrested March 31 and claimed he got lost and accidentally crossed the Mexican border with three firearms in his pickup truck. Many U.S. officials including the State Department lobbied for his release. Unlike American law, in Mexico one is guilty until proven innocent and the decision rests solely in the judge’s hands.
5 Football Players Beat Man, Yell ‘Football Strong’
Five football players from California University of Pennsylvania were arrested and suspended from the school after police say they beat and stomped a man outside an off-campus restaurant, then fled yelling “Football strong!”The victim was in intensive care Friday with severe brain trauma. Police said the players attacked Lewis Campbell, 30, of West Chester, as he was trying to stop an argument between his girlfriend and a player at about 2 a.m. Thursday. Corey Ford, Jonathan Barlow, D’Andre Dunkley, Rodney Gillin Jr. and James Williamson are charged with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, harassment and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. The school forfeited the teams’s game Saturday.