A Texas oil field worker has been detained in one of Mexico’s most dangerous prisons for nine months after crossing the border in an “honest accident” — while his family pleads for his safe return.

Caden Hawkins, 23, has been locked up on weapons charges at Cereso Estatal No. 3 in Juarez since March 2, when he unknowingly crossed the border in Columbus, New Mexico, while trying to return home to Hallsville after a job, his heartbroken mother, April Thomas, told KLTV .

Thomas said her son’s GPS directed him to the US–Mexico border without him realizing it, and he didn’t understand where he was until it was too late to turn around.

“I am on the phone with Caden, and he starts telling me the speed bumps are so bad in this town he’s in and then the next thing you know he is telling me tha

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