Lisa Hyland gets a hug from Karen Poth during their annual family reunion at Sugarcreek Community Park in July. This was the family's first reunion without Hyland's brother, Marc Fogel, since he was detained in Russia about a year ago. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle

Butler native Marc Fogel has been moved from Moscow to an intermediary facility before his transfer to a penal colony. It’s there that he is supposed to serve his 14-year sentence for bringing medical marijuana into the country in August 2021, family members said.

Fogel, a 61-year-old husband and father of two who lives in Oakmont, Allegheny County, was detained after he was found in possession of less than an ounce of medical marijuana after he landed at an airport.

His sister, Lisa Hyland, of O’Hara Township in Allegheny County, said the family has known he would be sent to a penal colony to serve his sentence after his appeal of the sentence was denied in August.

As of Thursday, she said he had been moved from where he was being held in Moscow to a penal colony.

“He’s in an intermediary facility now. He’s no longer where he was in Moscow. He will be moved again, and we don’t know when.” Hyland said. “It’s horrific.”

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