utbagpiper
Banned
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Mostly OT for this forumn, but maybe of interest to any who have followed the case. Bottom line, know the laws before you travel. Seems this guy's friend asked him to bring him a couple of boxes of ammo for a hunting rilfe and the custom's guys didn't take kindly to it as the pastor entered the country.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370381,00.html
Excerpt:
MOSCOW— A Russian court on Monday reduced the three-year prison sentence of a South Carolina pastor convicted of smuggling rifle ammunition and ordered him set free.
The Moscow City Court reduced Phillip Miles' sentence to 10 months and ruled that he should be freed from custody without serving all of it. Miles, who has been in jail since Feb. 3, will likely be released Tuesday, his lawyer said, and is expected to leave Russia by next week.
Mostly OT for this forumn, but maybe of interest to any who have followed the case. Bottom line, know the laws before you travel. Seems this guy's friend asked him to bring him a couple of boxes of ammo for a hunting rilfe and the custom's guys didn't take kindly to it as the pastor entered the country.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370381,00.html
Excerpt:
MOSCOW— A Russian court on Monday reduced the three-year prison sentence of a South Carolina pastor convicted of smuggling rifle ammunition and ordered him set free.
The Moscow City Court reduced Phillip Miles' sentence to 10 months and ruled that he should be freed from custody without serving all of it. Miles, who has been in jail since Feb. 3, will likely be released Tuesday, his lawyer said, and is expected to leave Russia by next week.