Arrested in Mexico

You’re coming home from Mexico from an off-road adventure. You get stopped at a military checkpoint only to find out your pistol, you thought you left back home is in your glove box! now starts a spiral of bad luck. Your family is desperate to get you home. Your wife is trying to help from across the border. Your life is suddenly at a stand-still. You don’t exist anymore in your real life anyway Host Bill Tsagrinos Audio by Ryan Knecht

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Episodes

Ep 8 Going Home, finally

Thursday Oct 26, 2023

Thursday Oct 26, 2023

It’s my court date. I finally get to see the judge. The people have been paid. You’ll find out how much. Now let see if they come through. Even up until the las minute I can’t seem to catch a break. Saying goodbye to my cell mates and preparing to cross the border one last time. Good bye Mexico.

Wednesday May 31, 2023

After finding out that people have been paid off. Why Am I still here? Everybody double talks. Im told I’ll be out in a few days then my attorney tells me that he said I would know in a few days. Im not confused! I know what he said.  The days are going slower & slower the longer Im here. I finally get a court date. The guys in the cell decide to make tamales for my going away celebration. Meagan comes to visit one more time. After my visit I get suddenly ill.

Thursday May 11, 2023

On this episode I find out the truth of how many people need to get paid off to get out of here. Primo tells me that my “guy in Cabo” is a liar. More delays for no reason and hold ups on money. This place is evil. 

Saturday Mar 11, 2023

After a week in a cell by myself that also had a fly hatchery. I read from my journal I kept while in prison.  I get out in time to go to yard next Thursday. My Wife a daughter visit me for the first time. The process to get a visit is quite the ordeal for my wife and daughter. I never thought about the strip search… 

Thursday Dec 08, 2022

I make a visit to the nurse. I get good news. Things are supposed to be moving forward. This is the first time we go to yard, I’ll get to use the phone and talk to Home. My wife has put money on my books and I’ll be able to buy food to contribute to the cell. I don’t understand why my wife can’t tell me what’s really going on. I think I have tuberculosis I’m put in a cell by myself or so I thought.

Sunday Sep 11, 2022

While trying to line up legal council things start to fall apart. Crossing the border multiple times, car problems & cash deliveries are just the beginning. Meagan explains how the cash needle to be delivered and how the people “helping” were going to make it happen. Only to be told that things a much worse with Bill’s case then they thought. Bill gets some information from the inside that start to make him optimistic. 

Ep 2 Welcome to cell C305

Thursday Aug 11, 2022

Thursday Aug 11, 2022

After 1 week in a holding cell C-108. I am now  entering the second floor cell, my new permanent home Cell C-305. experience what it’s like to be the new guy. What 19 people in a 6 man cell looks like. I found a picture on line from a cell in Tijuana. 
Narrated by Bill T audio edited mixed and scored by Ryan Knecht   

Monday Aug 08, 2022

On my way home from Mexico in San Felipe. I stop at federal checkpoint. With nothing to hide, I jump out of my truck to let them search it. That's when they open my glovebox and their sits my Glock .40 caliber pistol. THATS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE!  I said. Then begins the detainment, arrest, booking & the first time in my life I get arrest. Listen to the story of how my wife scrambles to figure out how to help me form the other side of the border. The beginning of what its really like when you get arrested. My first court appearance and 

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My story

This is my story of the ordeal in Mexico that I experience from March 8th to May 4th. In the series I’ll break down the experience from the arrest to the court appearances and the bribery and extortions that took place. 

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