About
Brittney Griner
, one of the best basketball players in the world, there is no news since last February.
A disturbing situation that this Saturday has had a no less strange update: the American was arrested at the Moscow airport when she was returning from New York.
Griner, an immense center of 2.06, double world champion and Olympic, combines teams in the USA (Phoenix Mercury) and Europe like many others.
Under the orders of
Miguel Méndez and with Alba Torrens
as a partner -both are already in Spain-, she dominates Europe from UMMC Ekaterinburg, current Euroleague champion.
Apparently, in a check on her at the Moscow-Sheremetyevo International Airport, a police dog unleashed suspicion on her.
When Russian police opened her luggage, he discovered a vaporizer and cannabis oil, which is illegal in the country.
Brittney can face a prison sentence of between five and 10 years.
The statement from the Russian Federal Customs Service is forceful.
"While a US citizen was passing through the
green channel
at Sheremetyevo airport on arrival from New York, a dog from the Customs canine department detected the possible presence of narcotic substances in her accompanying baggage. The U.S. citizen was carrying confirmed the presence of vaporizers with liquid with a specific odor, and an expert determined that the liquid was cannabis oil (hash oil), which is a narcotic substance.
"USA Basketball is aware of and closely follows the legal situation facing Brittney Griner in Russia," USA TEAM officials wrote on Twitter, conveying their "concern" for "the safety and well-being" of the player.
Some especially serious events at such a tense moment in international relations between the US and Russia with the war in Ukraine and in which almost all international athletes have left the country.
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