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 won’t 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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At least it’s not Turkey.
Oh Please! Second hand smoke is a myth. If it was fact the human race would be extinct.
Midnight Express.
When I was young, a very wise fellow once told me that if you had to do drugs, do them in your own country. Other countries may have laws that are very strict, and enforced more harshly against foreigners than locals. Americans have become targets in many places.
Amsterdam is OK, though.
Not surprised with your answer. U.S. has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, much higher than even Russia.
In a US court, she might have got even more.
Meanwhile, we have real traitors and thugs in the federal government that get off scot free.
You wish people were sentenced like in Russia???? Good God! I hope you’re joking.
“9 grams is alot.”
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Even in prohibition states, that amount would likely get you a fine, if that.
Let’s sneak drugs into Russia! What could possibly go wrong???
Legal in oklahoma.
Russia looking better all the time.
Just looking at that ounce full of buds, I had a flashback to 1976, Columbus, Ohio . Woody Hayes era. I made lots of ‘friends’ the parents would never hear anything about. “Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end!”
Only if you're Hungary.
What a shame. Poor little thing...
That’s a bit harsh for 1/4 oz. ( 75$)
Here it’s legal. Outright
I like the chocolate. No one can tell anything. Just put it on a Hershey bar package
Gee, I guess she didn’t know pot was illegal there./s
She should have offered them 20% of the US uranium stockpile...... Oh wait thats already been done.
Live by the cannabis, die by the cannabis.
Yes, we seemed to have created a disaster by legalizing pot. Wonder how we turn this back?
I don’t know how, except for the grace of the Lord God, that I never came into contact with any drugs as I grew up.
It seems as if I was living in a fog when it came to what was going on at the time. Everything from drugs to open sex to homosexual activity being on the rise, I never got a clue.
It’s not to say that I didn’t experience anything bad; there were many things I experienced that I wouldn’t want another person to experience. It was just never the stuff of the day that society was messing with, I guess.
When one of my sisters told me during a phone call that my brother had, “come out of the closet,” I recall asking how he managed to get locked in the closet. You can imagine her response to that seriously asked question....
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