Jack Lawrence

But no, they destroyed it.

The next problem was they had my Caribbean passport and the local police were holding it in Sofia.

The US government, since they convinced them I was a terrorist and that it was fake and I had this fake passport, they opened a new investigation into me for entering Bulgaria on an illegal passport.

problem was even after my extradition was denied not once but twice because my extradition was denied and the u.s embassy appealed it so then i had to go to prison again and wait like another month or two until the uh they basically fast-tracked it to like the not the supreme court but the highest federal court and um a panel of three judges turned on my extradition again and you could see the u.s embassy sent lawyers every time so i'm like okay extradition denied i'm ready to go let's go home

And Bulgaria is like, no, because what happened was the federal government of Bulgaria from the attorney general administrative justice, they're like, go home, you're free, no problems.

But the local police were holding my Caribbean passport and had put a passport block on me in the passport system as well.

I'm nearing, I entered Bulgaria on a three-month entry.

And they're basically telling me, you're overstaying soon and we're going to come arrest you the first day you expire and we know where you're staying.

They told me that.

It's ridiculous.

Yeah.

Now, I was not trying to do anything illegal.

I just wanted out of the country.

But we were planning for the scenario in which I would not have any passport, no identification.

And they'd already told me they were coming to arrest me on day 91.

We started putting together plans to get me out of Bulgaria and back to the Caribbean.

Now, Bulgarians and kids are almost on the opposite sides of the planet.

And so we started spending a lot of time going down to the Black Sea because I know how to sail.

And so my first instinct was sailboat.

I had about five different plans in place.