Jack Lawrence

So how long did you spend in that prison all up?

Well, that one was a few weeks.

I don't remember exactly.

It was a few weeks.

The reason I started the fight extradition was I was able to get some news from the outside, and I found out that the day I was arrested, they had already released.

So the minute I said they could talk to press, so I was thinking press is going to find out America arrested in Bulgaria, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

They should have written the question instead of, are we allowed to talk to the media?

It should have been, are we allowed to propagandize and release our own press releases and beat the crap out of you in the press?

My mom found out because I was on the morning radio, the television, front page of all the papers.

My youngest brother was 14.

He was getting ready to go to school.

And it comes across the radio, local man arrested in Bulgaria on kidnapping charges to be extradited back to the United States soon.

That was what came across the radio.

Never mentioned that it was my son.

Never mentioned I had custody of him.

Never mentioned any of this stuff.

Just international kidnapper.

And so I got news of what they were doing to me in the press.

And I was like, no.