Posted on 10/13/2019 7:03:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A 26-year-old woman with dual American and Israeli citizenship who has been jailed in Russia since April after authorities allegedly found nine grams of cannabis in her luggage, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, her sister said.
Naama Issachar's sister, Liad Gold, told Fox News on Sunday that her sister was sentenced Friday and the family has reached out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for her. She said the prime minister called their mother the day of the sentencing to let her know that he will do everything he can to have her released as soon as possible.
I feel incredibly terrible and sad and heartbroken for her, Gold told Fox News. She is very strong but she wont survive there much longer.
Issachar, who was born and raised in Fair Lawn, N.J., and moved to Israel when she was 16, was returning home April 9 after a three-month trip to India, Gold said. Issachar, who has served in the Israeli army, was stopped by police at the Moscow airport as she boarded her connecting flight to Tel Aviv, brought into an interrogation room and was told cannabis had been found in her checked bag.
Issachar said she accidentally left the cannabis in her bag, her sister said. The 26-year-old was initially charged with cannabis possession, but the charge was upgraded in May to smuggling drugs into Russia.
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Leave your dope at home.
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Never never travel with drugs! I’m sure something can be worked out but she’s fortunate she didn’t do this in Thailand or Malaysia...
What a travesty of justice. She’s clearly Not Guilty!
So. Actions have consequences. No sympathy.
Another stupid pothead.
World is full of them.
And the problem is? There is a stupid campaign in Israel to bring her home as if she is a sort of political prisoner which she is not.
Different countries has different laws and Russian policies towards drugs aren’t particularly a big secret.
9 grams? Isn’t that about 9 bags?
I don’t think it’s a large haul. Personal use most likely.
Very foolish, she should know better. Yikes.
Dont have a clue as to weights of drugs to volumes.
9 grams? Isnt that about 9 bags?
About 1/3 of an ounce. A small baggies worth, or so I remember.
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WAY harsh, but I have a feeling it will be negotiated and end up being 7 months.
I wish in California these measures would be taken :(. Instead it’s legal. So much 3rd and 2nd hand pot smoke I am privy to just driving the streets.
OH. Netanyahu is getting involved? Then maybe the sentence will be reduced to 7.5 days if that.
9 grams is alot.
A supply of cannabis over 6 gramms is counted as ‘dealer’s quantity’ per Russian legal practice. Regarding the curcumstances if you are caught for the first time with less than that you get under three years. And if you helped police to catch the dealers it would be suspended sentence. Her stash was too big to get off lightly. She is lucky it wasn’t bath salt, crack or heroin. Would be 20 years in this case.
See post 15.
1 gram = 0.0353 oz
9 x 0.0353 = 0.3177 oz
Good soldier, silly girl.
At age 26, she should know better.
I’ll pray for her safety and survival.
It’s a good thing she didn’t go through Turkey on the Midnight Express.
I traveled with a bit more in the 70’s. Wouldn’t try it now.
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