Moscow court sentences U.S. citizen Woodland to 12.5 years in penal colony for attempt to sell drugs

MOSCOW. July 4 (Interfax) - The Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow has sentenced U.S. citizen Robert Woodland to 12.5 years in a high-security colony for drug trafficking, the court told Interfax.

"Woodland was sentenced to 12 years and six months in a high-security penal colony," the court said on Thursday.

Woodland was found guilty of an attempt to sell a large amount of drugs.