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US Marine veteran jailed in Mexico to be released
By: Caroline May
12/21/2012
The Marine held in Mexico on a questionable gun charge will be released from prison in Mexico, reports confirmed Friday.
Jon Hammar, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been in held in a Mexican prison, after he was arrested in August and charged with a federal weapon felony facing up to 15 years in prison, for carrying an antique gun into Mexico on his way to Costa Rica for a hunting and surfing trip despite having a required permit and attempting to declare the gun.
The court ruled on the motion that excluded the evidence on the charge because of a violation of his constitutional rights under Mexican law which resulted in the charge being dropped, Hammars father, Jon Hammar Sr. told Fox News during a layover in Houston on his way to pick up his son.
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