A Marine veteran jailed in a dangerous area of Mexico for carrying a gun across the border was expected to be released today, his lawyer said. The Mexican attorney general's office told U.S. Senator Bill Nelson about the pending release after Nelson's office got word from the mother of Jon Hammar. 'No American should be in a Mexican jail for five months without being able to have his case in front of a judge,' Senator Nelson said. 'We're grateful, this is a good Christmas present.' Hammar's attorney Eddie Varon Levy said he was flying on Friday from Mexico City to Matamoros to pick his client up.
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Hammar, 27, was arrested in August for carrying an antique rifle that had belonged to his great-grandfather
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Hammar, a Marine, had served in Iraq and Afghanistan
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He was suffering from PTSD after the death of a fellow Marine in Fallujah
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