World Daily News - Russia jails former US marine for nine years for police assault -World Daily News

A Russian court has sentenced a former US marine to nine years in prison on charges of assaulting a police officer while drunk, in a controversial case that he has claimed is political. Trevor Reed, 29, was convicted of endangering the lives of police officers during an incident last August that he says he cannot remember. After being detained for public drunkenness following a party, he was accused of hitting one police officer and pulling at the arm of another who was driving a police car, potentially causing an accident. Most of the evidence in the trial has been disputed. Reed was alone with the police officers when the alleged incident took place. Reed is the second former US marine to be sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Russia this summer. In June, a court convicted Paul Whelan of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a high-security prison. Whelan is seen as a likely bargaining chip in a trade for several Russian nationals serving prison terms in the US.

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