Russia sentences US marine to 9-year imprisonment for espionage

A court in Russia on Thursday sentenced a former US Marine to nine years in prison for assaulting two police officers while drunk last year.

Trevor Reed, a 29-year-old student, has been in jail since last year when he was arrested for the attack, which, according to the judge, had caused the two police officers to suffer “mental and physical harm.”

The court ruled that Reed’s “state of intoxication” had played a decisive role in the incident and sentenced him to nine years in a penal colony.

Reed’s conviction follows the high-profile trial of another former US marine Paul Whelan, who received a 16-year jail sentence last month on espionage charges.