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MOSCOW - U.S. Staff Sergeant Gordon Black was detained on May 2 by police in the Russian far eastern city of Vladivostok on suspicion of stealing from a woman he was in a relationship with. The local section of Russia's interior ministry said Black was detained at a hotel in the city after a 32-year-old woman made a complaint to police about a theft following an argument.The unnamed Russian woman had been in a relationship with Black after meeting in South Korea, the ministry said.

Russia's Izvestia newspaper cited an unidentified source as saying that he had beaten the woman and stolen 200,000 Russian roubles . Radio Free Europe said it had found a TikTok account of Black’s romantic partner, Aleksandra Vashchuk, who posted numerous videos of the couple together in South Korea, including at least one showing Black in his U.S. Army fatigues.

But instead of returning to the United States, he flew from Korea to China and then to Vladivostok. The Pentagon said he went to Russia"for personal reasons."The Pentagon said he broke rules with his unauthorized travel to both China and Russia.

 

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