Rescued: Jon Hammar, 27, pictured, has opened up for the first time about his horrific ordeal, which saw him spend more than four months in a corrupt prison on the Texas-Mexico border on weapons charges A U.S. Marine veteran who was thrown into a Mexican prison for carrying an antique shotgun across the border says gangsters threatened to behead him while he was in jail. Jon Hammar, 27, has opened up for the first time about the horrific ordeal, which saw him spend more than four months in a corrupt prison on the Texas-Mexico border on weapons charges. He was released just days before Christmas but says there were times he believed he wouldn't escape with his life.
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Jon Hammar, 27, was arrested in August for carrying an antique rifle that had belonged to his great-grandfather across the border
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Had served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was suffering from PTSD after the death of a fellow Marine in Fallujah
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Says he never knew when his next meal was and that jail was run by hardened criminals some of whom were serving triple death sentences
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