Seven-time WNBA All-Star center Brittney Griner, 31, has been detained by the Russian Federal Customs Service after it claims to have found hashish oil in her luggage, according to the New York Times and Russian news agency TASS. She currently plays for UMMC Ekaterinburg, a women’s basketball team that competes […]
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WNBA Center Brittney Griner Is Detained in Russia
WASHINGTON — Russia explained on Saturday that it had detained an American basketball player — later on identified as Phoenix Mercury heart Brittney Griner — on drug expenses, entangling a U.S. citizen’s destiny in the hazardous confrontation between Russia and the West in excess of Ukraine. The Russian Federal Customs […]