Arizona congressman says jailed Marine doing well
Associated Press
Posted on May 31, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Updated today at 7:30 PM
http://www.azfamily.com/news/national/261397381.html
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon says a Marine veteran who has been in a Mexico prison on weapons charges is doing well.
Salmon says he was able to visit Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi on Saturday at el Hongo II prison in Tijuana and the 25-year-old seemed in good spirits.
The congressman says he is confident Tahmooressi will be treated respectfully.
Tahmooressi was headed to dinner in San Ysidro, California, on March 31 when he mistakenly wound up at a border-crossing point in Tijuana.
According to Tahmooressi, Mexican authorities found three legally owned guns in his truck.
Meanwhile, KTVK-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1pHSrcQ) Tahomooressi's friends and family held a rally Saturday morning in Phoenix outside the offices of U.S. Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake.
They are asking lawmakers to help get Tahomooressi released.
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