The mother of a US soldier detained in Russia says her son’s Russian girlfriend asked him for money shortly before he was arrested on suspicion of theft.
“It was Facebook’s fault. She wanted me to open another account and send money,” said Melody Jones, the 34-year-old mother of Staff Sgt. Gordon Black said Wednesday on “America’s Newsroom.”
Jones told anchor Bill Hemmer that his son’s girlfriend asked him for $600, which he thought was a red flag.
Black was captured in the Russian Pacific region on May 2nd. Port city Vladivostok While visiting his girlfriend in the countryside. He was assigned to the U.S. Forces Korea Eighth Army at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, and traveled to Russia for “personal reasons,” the Pentagon said.
Jones said it was her “mother’s instincts” that warned her not to take the trip in the first place.
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“I begged him not to go,” Jones said. “I said, ‘Please don’t go. I don’t think it’s going to end well for you.'” I told him I had a really bad feeling he was leaving. I…for some reason, I was more worried about him than I was when he was in Iraq. ”
“When choosing the precautionary measure of detention, the court came to the conclusion that American B (a black man) could hide from the preliminary investigation in view of the weight of the charges,” the Pervomaysky District Court in Vladivostok said. Ta. Authorities and courts are trying to avoid responsibility,” Reuters reported.
The report added that Black will be detained until July 2 on charges of “secretly stealing Citizen T’s property and causing serious damage to Citizen T.”
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Russian officials in Vladivostok said a 32-year-old woman had filed a complaint against a 34-year-old black man, Reuters also reported.
The news agency cited officials as saying the two met in South Korea before Black came to visit her in Russia, during which they got into an argument. Black then filed a police report accusing her of stealing her money, and Black was reportedly detained at the hotel.
A photo of U.S. Army soldier Gordon Black sending a holiday message from Iraq in 2009. (U.S. Department of Defense)
Jones previously told ABC’s “Good Morning America” (GMA) that he believes his girlfriend “framed” his son. She also described her son’s relationship with a Russian woman as “volatile” and she even suspected that her longtime lover was a spy.
She said she told her son not to travel to Russia when he was supposed to be returning to the United States for the holidays.
Russian authorities maintain that Mr. Black will remain in pre-trial detention until July 2. The Army has since begun an investigation into Mr. Black’s travels, which will include an investigation into the possible consequences of his travels.
Fox News’ Greg Norman, Greg Wehner and Pilar Arias and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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