Posted on 01/19/2014 3:24:59 PM PST by lowbridge
Pulaski County authorities have dropped charges against two foreign military officers who were training at Fort Leonard Wood when they were arrested.
The Rolla Daily News reports that Mohammed Mahmoud Omar Mefleh, of Jordan, and Antoine Chlela, of Lebanon, were charged in October with enticement of a child and harassment. Court records say the men allegedly approached a 12-year-old girl at a bus stop and asked her to enter their vehicle.
Pulaski County prosecutor Kevin Hillman said Friday that the charges were dropped as part of an agreement that includes the men paying the cost of their incarceration. Hillman says they were taken by Fort Leonard Wood officials, and he expects them to be out of the U.S. by Monday. Under terms of the plea, they will not be allowed to return to the country.
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Their defense was, they thought she was a camel.
Because they’re muzzies, not Christian Catholics.
...the men allegedly approached a 12-year-old girl ...
Their defense was, they thought she was a camel.
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Or possibly a goat.
They tried that on a post that won’t put up with it. Ft. Leonard Wood is more old fashioned than most.
Ah, I see. They did it off-post and were prosecuted off-post. Deporting and barring them was probably the best that could be done under the circumstances.
I did 13 weeks of OSUT training there—total control, all of it.
I lived in an area not so far from there for a few years—kinda like Waynesville/St. Roberts but much more Ozarkian. Many have moved near Ft. Leonard Wood from big cities for civil service and contract work.
“... they will not be allowed to return to the country.”
Until they migrate across our porous southern border, that is...
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