U.S. women's basketball player Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for smuggling illegal drugs into the country, is bound for San Antonio, according to reports.
A spokesperson for San Antonio’s Brooke Army Medical Center referred questions on Griner’s arrival to the U.S. State Department.
The White House determined she was wrongfully detained and called the legal proceedings a “sham.” Griner pleaded guilty to the charges in September and apologized for the incident, calling it an “honest mistake.”President Joe Biden said from the White House’s Roosevelt Room As he made the announcement that Griner was being released in exchange for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer,“She’s relieved to finally be heading home. And the fact remains that she’s lost months of her life, experienced a needless trauma, and she deserves space, privacy, and time with her loved ones to recover and heal from her time being wrongfully detained,” Biden said.
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