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Florida Marine Vet Hospitalized After Release From Mexican Jail

A Marine veteran who spent months in a Mexican prison after trying to carry an heirloom shotgun across the border had to be hospitalized on his way home to Florida.

CBS Tampa–2012/12/24

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Marine Being Held In Mexican Prison For Bringing Unloaded Shotgun Into Country

A South Florida family is fighting to get their son, a Marine veteran, released from a prison in a dangerous area in Mexico while facing charges that he carried across the border a shotgun with a barrel that’s an inch too short.

2012/12/12

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