WNBA Star Griner Facing Serious Charges

[roadhog]

She's been in custody for a month, but the story is just coming out now.

WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner has been detained for 3 weeks in Russia after drug arrest

WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic champion Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia for three weeks — after she was arrested for having vape cartridges in her luggage at a Moscow airport.

nypost.com

 

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[basketcase]

A bit of cbd oil in a vape shouldn't be a serious charge but in this political climate....

 

[Charlemagne]

The right wingers on this board love stories like this...

 

[shack]

Going to foreign totalitarian states with drugs is just plain stupid. Even if they're not totalitarian, it's still fucking stupid.

The movie Midnight Express was very popular, about a guy smuggling hash from Turkey and got locked up their jails. I had ZERO sympathy for the main character.

 

[KDK13]

They also plant drugs on high profile people there to get kompromat. Just another idea to consider. Unsure of it for this case.

 

[mjg1]

A bit of cbd oil in a vape shouldn't be a serious charge but in this political climate....

Unless you're in Russia and they just invaded another country and what any kind of leverage over America.

 

[mjg1]

Going to foreign totalitarian states with drugs is just plain stupid. Even if they're not totalitarian, it's still fucking stupid.

The movie Midnight Express was very popular, about a guy smuggling hash from Turkey and got locked up their jails. I had ZERO sympathy for the main character.

Midnight Express great movie and theme song!

 

[shack]

Midnight Express great movie and theme song!

I forget the song.

I know the movie was very well received/reviewed and we were supposed feel bad for him for the way he was treated in prison. But for the reasons I stated above, I figured he got what he deserved. As such, the movie did not really resonate with me.

 

[mjg1]

I forget the song.

I know the movie was very well received/reviewed and we were supposed feel bad for him for the way he was treated in prison. But for the reasons I stated above, I figured he got what he deserved. As such, the movie did not really resonate with me.

The theme song for the movie was also used as Art Bell's intro music on his radio show. That's how it remains forever engrained into my memory, I used to listen to Art's show "Coast to Coast AM."

"Chase" by Giorgio Moroder. I love this song!

 

[redshank]

 

[NotADcotor]

She's been in custody for a month, but the story is just coming out now.

Well it is the *w*NBA so why would anyone actually care.

 

[y2kmark]

They also plant drugs on high profile people there to get kompromat. Just another idea to consider. Unsure of it for this case.

Just days before the invasion of Ukraine? How is that possible? ...

 

[y2kmark]

The theme song for the movie was also used as Art Bell's intro music on his radio show. That's how it remains forever engrained into my memory, I used to listen to Art's show "Coast to Coast AM."

On the fringe or on the cutting edge, he was always worth listening to. First I heard any of the science behind global warming was on his show. 1970's? Was hearing it on WWL in NOLA, I remember, so it was many moons...

 

[richaceg]

i hink she might be lucky for the current t predicament...imagine if she's in South Asian country like Singapore...she could either get caned, life or death sentences...

 

[y2kmark]

i hink she might be lucky for the current t predicament...imagine if she's in South Asian country like Singapore...she could either get caned, life or death sentences...

Nobody in Singapore would have set her up in the first place...

 

[thumper18474]

pleaded guilty this morning possibly to set up a prisoner exchange deal with the US...

 

[Steve_Stevens]

pleaded guilty this morning possibly to set up a prisoner exchange deal with the US...

Griner for "The Merchant of Death"....I think Putin wins that trade all day long

 

[tml]

Griner for "The Merchant of Death"....I think Putin wins that trade all day long

Hopefully they throw in the other two American detainees...........and a player to be named later.

 

[harryass]

yip, No surprise. Marbles, sports or politics, any time a Russian judge is involved its fixed.

Griner sentenced to nine years in prison by Russian judge
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and was sentenced to nine years in prison in a politically charged case that could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow.

The 31-year-old Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and a eight-time all-star with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, listened with a blank expression as an interpreter translated the verdict by Judge Anna Sotnikova, but her lawyers said later she was “very upset.” Griner also was fined 1 million rubles (about $16,700).

Brittney Griner Russia prison sentence | TSN

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling, and was sentenced to nine years in prison in a politically charged case that ultimately could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow.

www.tsn.ca