Basketball star Brittney Griner returns to US after prisoner exchange with Russia
Dec 10, 2022
Brittney Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport nine months ago. She was accused of possession of vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil and sentenced in August to nine years in prison. Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death" was detained Thailand in 2008, extradited to the United States, and sentenced in 2012 to 25 years behind bars.