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American basketball star Brittney Griner detained in Russia on drug charges, faces up to 10 years in prison
Fox News ^
| March 5, 2022
| Paulina Dedaj
Posted on 03/05/2022 11:03:10 AM PST by McGruff
WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia and could face up to 10 years in prison after customs officers found "vapes" containing hashish oil in her luggage back in February, reports say.
The Russian Federal Customs Service released a statement Saturday confirming that an American "two-time Olympic basketball champion" had been taken into custody in February after a narcotics' dog at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow alerted the athlete’s luggage.
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KEYWORDS: basketball; didyousearch; russia; shutupthreadkaren; sports
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:03:10 AM PST
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McGruff
To: McGruff
She’s toast whether guilty or not. She’s now a political pawn.
To: McGruff
Ok. That’s it. Let’s nuke Russia.
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:04:28 AM PST
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
To: McGruff
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:04:41 AM PST
by
SMARTY
(Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
To: McGruff
To: fightin kentuckian
Bet she is guilty. Time will tell. PUCK FUTIN!
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:06:32 AM PST
by
rrrod
(6)
To: McGruff
Guilty as charged.
To: changeitback440
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:08:01 AM PST
by
McGruff
(The first casualty when war comes is truth)
To: fightin kentuckian
We might find out if she’s really a guy.
To: McGruff
Putin’s toast now.
You can’t pick on a lesbian Negro from Texas.
Everybody gonna hate on him now.
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:08:08 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(Let's Go Brandon!)
To: McGruff
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:08:19 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
To: HighSierra5
At least more severe sanctions are in order.
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:10:07 AM PST
by
McGruff
(The first casualty when war comes is truth)
To: McGruff
To: McGruff
Can’t wait to see her in ‘Locked-up Abroad’.
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:10:49 AM PST
by
AU72
To: McGruff
Will BLM send troops to Russia?
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:11:18 AM PST
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:11:58 AM PST
by
OKSooner
(For the record I condemn Vladimir Putin and the violent invasion of Ukraine.)
To: McGruff
One phone call from Biden and son-of-a-b****, Putin caves like a Ukrainian politician.
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:12:01 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
To: changeitback440
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:12:15 AM PST
by
Moleman
To: qwerty1234
From what I’ve seen on YouTube, tattoos are a big deal in Russian prisons at least in the men’s prisons.
Assuming that she did in fact try to smuggle hash vapes, why would she be so stupid? “I’m going to a county with notoriously rough prisons—I think I’ll bring some hash; what could go wrong?”
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:13:59 AM PST
by
hanamizu
To: McGruff
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posted on
03/05/2022 11:15:04 AM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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