Brittney Griner was reportedly detained in Russia someday final month. Experiences are that Griner was arrested on the Moscow airport after a search of her baggage turned up hashish vape cartridges.
Russian authorities haven’t specified that Griner was arrested, nor the date of the arrest, however did say it was a USA ladies’s basketball participant. Griner was in Russia to play for UMMC Ekaterinburg. Throughout the WNBA offseason, a number of US-born gamers play abroad.
Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, didn’t dispute Griner had been detained in an announcement.
“We’re conscious of the scenario with Brittney Griner in Russia and are in shut contact along with her, her authorized illustration in Russia, her household, her groups, and the WNBA and NBA,” Kagawa Colas stated Saturday. “As that is an ongoing authorized matter, we aren’t in a position to remark additional on the specifics of her case however can affirm that as we work to get her residence, her psychological and bodily well being stay our major concern.”
