U.S. Staff Sergeant Gordon Black is now sitting in a Russian jail and facing up to 5 years imprisonment.
“He mentioned it once and we told him, ‘Don’t you dare do it,’” Jones, 53, said in a phone interview. “I told him he needs to get back to the States. That’s all I told him. I told him he had no business being there.”
“There was some woman involved… He had been seeing her for a good while. Apparently she was living in South Korea until she was deported,” he said. “I have a feeling that she had a lot to do with it,” Jones said, adding that he learned of the arrest last Thursday. Vashchuk set her TikTok profile to private on Tuesday as details on the case against Black trickled out. A Telegram channel known to be close with Russian law enforcement said Black had been placed in a cell with other “first-timers” who are struggling to communicate with him in English.
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