View more videos at: http://nbcmiami.com (http://nbcmiami.com/?__source=embedCode).By Juan Ortega and Diana Gonzalez, NBCMiami.comUpdated 10:30 p.m. ET: The South Florida Marine veteran who for months was detained at a Mexican prison for bringing an unloaded shotgun into the country has been freed, officials and his lawyer said late Friday.(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121220-hammar-vsmall.380;380;7;70;0.jpg)Jon Hammar is seen in an undated photograph provided by his family. The attorney for Jon Hammar tweeted Friday night that his client had been released from a detention center in Matamoros, Mexico. U.S. officials were planning to drive the 27-year-old Hammar across the border at Brownsville, Texas.
"He's out. Going home," wrote Eddie Varon Levy in a tweet.
With the judge’s ruling, Hammer was expected to be released after noon Friday, according to a statement from U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
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