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Update Article on Missing LI Marine
A missing Sag Harbor Marine has turned herself in to military authorities after a two-week disappearance with her new husband that left her family fearing that she'd been the victim of foul play.
Lance Cpl. Margaret McMahon-Reid, 20, and her husband, Pfc. George "Kevyn" Reid, surrendered to the Guilford County Jail in Greensboro, N.C., on Saturday and were held over the weekend until being transferred to San Diego on Monday, authorities said.
McMahon-Reid is now back at Camp Pendleton and resuming her duties as a communication equipment officer, said Mike Alvarez, a Marine spokesman in California. Her husband, meanwhile, is being held at the Naval Consolidated Brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
"He is being held there because he was deemed a flight risk," First Lt. Jill Leyden said.
McMahon-Reid's command determined she was not a flight risk, Alvarez said. Details on how each determination was made were not available.
Neither Reid, 22, nor his wife has been charged with a crime, and officials said it was too early to speculate on potential charges. Both were considered on an unauthorized absence during their disappearance.
McMahon-Reid's family did not return requests for comment. In the days after she went missing on March 31, they expressed fear something had occurred between the newlywed couple, who sometimes got into disputes, they said.
McMahon-Reid told her family last week she left because she was suffering from anxiety. "She said it was just too much for her," her sister, Heather McMahon, 29, of Mastic Beach, said Thursday.
An agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service initially said they were investigating the possibility she had been kidnapped, but authorities backed away from that theory a day later, stating there was no evidence of foul play.
Video surveillance of the couple indicated they stopped in Kansas and Missouri before winding up in North Carolina, where Reid has relatives.
Reid's mother declined to comment when asked if she wanted to say anything on her son's behalf. Messages left with Reid and his wife on their MySpace accounts last week have not been returned.
A deserter is someone who has been absent for 30 consecutive days or takes asylum in a foreign country. Only a small percentage of deserters turn themselves in, and even fewer are turned in by friends or family, according to a Department of Defense directive.
Deserters or those on an unauthorized absence are prosecuted at the discretion of the individual's unit commander. The penalty for an unauthorized absence could be up to 6 months in prison for someone who is gone less than 30 days, said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the nonprofit National Institute of Military Justice.
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