A Butler man has been sentenced to 14 years in Moscow prison for “large-scale” cannabis smuggling, international news publications are reporting.

Marc Fogel, formerly of Butler, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport in August 2021, accused of attempting to smuggle marijuana into the country in his luggage.

Russia’s Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday that Fogel turned out to be a teacher at the Anglo-American school, and was previously an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

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