probably shows that andrew did want to tell the truth from the get-go. we learn that i think the first official he encountered wanted to let him go back, and then a guard, a soldier, mexican soldier, overruled him and said we re not going to do that. did he tell you how i went down. he made a mistake spendded up in mexico elm told them right at the gate, at the checkpoint, he had guns and he thought everything was fun, and they thought they re going to help him certain of turn around and go back through some lane. didn t happen. meantime, mexican military showed up and that s when everything changes. here s an interesting piece of information i just learned today. the person he went to california to visit was someone who was in afghanistan with and he had all this belongings in his vehicle and he told the man he was a corporal in the military, that
multiple times i was punched in the stomach a few times, i-to at the point where i couldn t breath. i was gasping for air. i was struck in the face a bunch of times with open palms, slaps. my jaw i got slapped on one side of my jaw, maybe like ten times in a row. wow. u.s. marine andrew he was in two whereins. the first one which was far more violent, he had situations like he just outlined, and that i suppose that s not an un prison is rough and there s a language barrier. he has been transferred to
border. i have three gucks in my truck. can i please turn around. andrew says the were flag over an escort car but within mints the chatter over the walkie-talkies was getting frantic and louder and then comes a second wave of officers, and then a military official with two stripes, walked in and took charge and that military official was not even interested in questioning andrew. apparently he saw the weapons, and concluded right then and there that andrew was guilty. now, he tried to escape from the first prison he was held at. right? his life was threatened. he was going to be killed that night. yes. so by the grace of god, his courage, his marine training who was going to kill him i m sorry. yes, yes. when he called me that night, he said, mom, i m not going to make it through the night.
another prison but that butter but prison is prison. it s a lousy place. a language barrier, ptsd, and he can t get through the system fast enough. now he fired his lawyer. what happened? he fired his lawyer because right after the was arrested, he claimed his lawyer told him to tell a story that he reside never been to tee tijuana before. have an e-mail here, arrested on march 31 and i have an e-mail april 4th from his lawyer to his mother in which it says that andrew was trying, to quote, change his story. the problem was the lawyer, according to andrew, told him to make up the story he had never been to mexico before and an true wanted to say, i ve been to mexico before but then you have an e-mail dated april 4th with the lawyer telling the mother, don t do that. in fact he says, he needs to
afternoon on the 31st, and when he explained to his legal representative that, i acquired, he explained that to the representative, but the representative thought that it was not good information, that it could hurt him, he had been in mexico. i don t understand why. i didn t know that you could be considered a criminal just for going into mexico. but so he was scripted to sa. i had to trust the opinion of the legal representative because he explained to me that the judicial system in mexico was totally different and was oral arguments, not done the way in america, and he knows best. i need to trust him. and so we were vulnerable. and he was a vetted attorney off of the u.s. consulate service list, trained in america, so all i and andrew could do was take orders. take orders from legal counsel. so if you don t mind my reconstructing this because i m