Mystery Trip: Marine Missing from California’s Camp Pendleton Found Safe at Texas Rest Area

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Richland, Texas — A U.S. Marine believed to have left Arizona for California’s Camp Pendleton never arrived but was found days later at a Texas rest area, unharmed.

Lance Corporal Job Wallace was taken into custody Saturday night by Naval Criminal Investigative Service and other law enforcement officers at a rest area in Navarro County, according to a NCIS statement cited by The San Diego Union-Tribune.

The 20-year-old had last been seen leaving a friend’s house in Surprise, Arizona, on Monday night, his mother, Stacy Wallace, said. He was due back at Camp Pendleton after a three-day leave that took him home to the suburbs west of Phoenix and a camping trip.

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