An Army staff sergeant stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas, was convicted June 19 2024 in Vladivostok of stealing and making threats of murder against his girlfriend, and was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
He was found guilty by a Russian court of assaulting a prison officer and a state investigator at a penal colony in Voronezh, south of the Russian capital, according to The Associated Press.
Fogel was one of several Americans left out of a massive prisoner swap involving 24 people between the U.S. and Russia last year under the Biden administration, which followed many months of negotiations and concessions from other European countries.
He had flown to Russia from his U.S. military post in South Korea without authorization and was arrested in May after the woman accused him of stealing from her, according to US and Russian authorities.
He was sentenced to six years and 10 months in prison in October 2024 after being convicted in a closed court in Moscow of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine.
