AZMEX SEMPER FI 21-12-12

AZMEX SEMPER FI 21 DEC 2012


A U.S. Marine veteran jailed in Matamoros has been released and is
back in the United States.
Posted: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:02 pm | Updated: 9:31 pm, Fri Dec
21, 2012.
The Brownsville Herald
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/local/
article_16450fc2-4be4-11e2-b93a-001a4bcf6878.html

A U.S. Marine veteran jailed in Matamoros has been released and is
back in the United States.
An attorney for Jon "Jonny" Hammar said the young Marine was brought
back to the U.S. sometime this evening.
Hammar had been jailed in a Matamoros prison on a weapons charge
since August. His family and been working with federal lawmakers to
get him released.
This morning, the vice president of the Tamaulipas Chamber of
Commerce has confirmed that U.S Marine Jon Hammar was in the custody
of U.S. officials.
"He's free," Gerardo Danache Acevedo told The Brownsville Herald
earlier today.
Acevedo Danache said he had been informed that a judge has signed
Hammar's release papers from jail and that he was expected to be
escorted out of Matamoros sometime today.
Acevedo Danache earlier this month made a telephone call to Mexican
President Enrique Pena Nieto asking him to pardon the veteran Marine.
"I really, really believe the media played a big role in this. I am
happy that this will happen because there is no reason we should
continue with this" Acevedo Danache said in a telephone interview
with The Brownsville Herald.
"I am very happy for him, for the family and for us because that will
show we can work together even if we have different cultures. We have
more important issues to deal with," the vice president said.
Hammar served in Fallujah, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was honorably
discharged in 2007.