Video shows moment US vet Trevor Reed swapped for Russian drug traffickerBy Lee Brown
April 28, 2022
Freed US Marine veteran Trevor Reed is now “back in the USA,” his mom said early Thursday — as a dramatic new video showed the Hollywood-like moment when he was swapped for a Russian drug trafficker in a prisoner exchange.
“It’s been [a] very exciting day for The Reed family,” the 30-year-old Texan’s mom, Paula Reed, tweeted of the return of her son who spent nearly 1,000 days in a Moscow prison on trumped-up charges.
Newly-released footage showed the prisoner swap on the tarmac of a Turkey airport in a moment his dad, Jerry, had said was “like you see in the movies.”
Reed, dressed all in black, could be seen walking from his jet and across the tarmac — passing Konstantin Yaroshenko, 53, the Russian drug trafficker who was freed from his 20-year sentence in federal prison in Connecticut.
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Reed had been behind bars since 2019, accused of assaulting two cops in Moscow while blackout drunk — getting sentenced to nine years after a trial that the US ripped as a “theater of the absurd.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/04/28/video-shows-trevor-reed-swapped-for-russian-drug-trafficker/
