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rangerrebew:
Staff Sgt. Gordon Black Reportedly Pleads Guilty to Theft While Being Held by Russia
 
 
Military.com | By Drew F. Lawrence
Published May 16, 2024 at 4:18pm ET

A U.S. soldier being held in Russia pleaded guilty to theft charges Thursday, two weeks after he was detained in the country on suspicion of stealing money from a Russian woman he was in a relationship with, according to several state media outlets.

Russian authorities arrested Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, in Vladivostok, a port city in the country, earlier this month and charged him with theft. Black traveled from South Korea to China and finally Russia, where he remains in custody.
 
Black was assigned to the Eighth Army at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. He went on leave, supposed to be headed to an Army base in Texas, when he flew to Russia to meet Aleksandra Vashchuk, his girlfriend.

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"He is cooperating; he admitted [guilt]," the RIA news agency, a Russian-backed media site, reported Thursday, citing an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Primorsky Territory, near where Black is being held.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/05/16/staff-sgt-gordon-black-reportedly-pleads-guilty-theft-while-being-held-russia.html

rangerrebew:
If true, the Army might want to consider leaving him in Russia for the safety of his comrades. *****rollingeyes*****

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