Ex-Marine held in Mexico freed, officials say

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 View more videos at: http://nbcmiami.com.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.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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