Russian media say U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, who has been jailed for two weeks, is cooperating with authorities and has pleaded guilty to theft.
Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, a U.S. soldier jailed in the Russia n city of Vladivostok, has entered a guilty plea to theft charges and is cooperating with investigators in the case, Russia 's state-run news outlets said Thursday. 'He is cooperating, he admitted ,' the RIA news agency cited a representative of the local interior ministry as saying.
government has warned Americans repeatedly not to travel to Russia, citing 'the potential for harassment and the singling out of U.S. citizens for detention by Russian government security officials' and other factors.The Biden administration has been working to secure the release of two other Americans who it considers wrongfully detained in Russia. Paul Whelan, a former Marine, has been imprisoned since 2018 on espionage charges, which the U.S.
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