(CNN)A US Navy veteran has been held in an Iranian prison on unspecified charges since July, his mother told The New York Times on Monday.
Michael R. White, 46, of Imperial Beach, California, was detained in Iran while visiting his Iranian girlfriend, the mother, Joanne White, told The Times.
The mother filed a missing-person report after her son failed to return as planned in late July, and State Department officials told her three weeks ago that he was in an Iranian prison, she told The Times.
