WASHINGTON (AP) – Trevor Reed is back in the United States one day after the Marine veteran was swapped for a Russian drug trafficker in a prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow.
That’s according to his mother, who tweeted the news early Thursday. Reed was swapped on Wednesday for Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The 30-year-old Reed was arrested in 2019 after Russian authorities said he assaulted an officer while being driven to a police station following a night of heavy drinking. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.
The U.S. government has described him as unjustly detained and pressed for his release.
Texas State Rep. August Pfluger was on hand when Reed landed in San Antonio:
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