Posted on 05/26/2018 12:22:47 PM PDT by cardinal4
SALT LAKE CITY — A Riverton man who has been imprisoned in Venezuela for the past two years was released and is expected to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Saturday evening. The family of Josh Holt posted a statement on Facebook saying, "We are grateful to all who participated in this miracle."
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What was he in prison for?
He was accused of having weapons during a police raid. It was a wrong place at the wrong time type thing. He posted during a prison riot last week..
I see it was having been associated with guns somehow in the home of his fiance.
I’m sure this is only PART of a deal. Hang on....
He was a Mormon missionary accused of being some sort of top secret spy, stockpiling guns and grenades in some hotel room.
He was actually there to marry a woman he met online.
They kept him in prison without a trial since 2016.
Realistically, he probably couldn’t raise enough cash to pay la mordida.
Guns and grenades- just the things needed for a honeymoon.
He wasn’t a mission at the time, though. He went back to marry the woman..
A side note, the Venezuela prison system is as brutal as they come..
Didn’t say he actually *had* them.
Utahn. A new word for me. I always thought it was Utahan.
To think a claim is true means you think what it claims is actually true.
If you say you believe the claim of the Venezuelan officials that Josh Holt had guns, then you must actually believe the claim is true.
It doesn’t mean merely that you support the Venezuelan officials in a political sense.
This distinction between what you say you believe and what you actually believe is often, if not always, lost to the mind of the progressive or to those significantly influenced by progressivism.
I was being facetious in my post.
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