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.
Moscow prosecutors said it has been established that Woodland, "acting as a member of an organized group on January 3, 2024, fulfilling the organizers' instructions, being in a forest in Mytishchy, Moscow region, took out of a cache a large amount of a narcotic substance, mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) weighing in total at least
46.91 grams. Woodland took the drugs to an apartment in Moscow, where he packaged them in 49 packs for further illegal sale.
Woodland was detained while trying to stash the drugs. Woodland, 32, a citizen of Russia and the United States, was detained and arrested in Moscow in January 2024. He was born in the Perm region and is registered to live there, but lived in the Moscow region.
Woodland said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2020 he had been adopted by a family from the U.S. in 1993 and he had returned to Russia in 2020.
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