A court in the US state of Arizona sentenced Russian citizen Yevgeny Glushchenko, who was wounded while illegally crossing the US-Mexican border in 2019. Writes about this Associasted Press.
According to the agency, Glushchenko is not obliged to serve a prison sentence and will be deported to Russia.
Glushchenko has already served 151 days in an American prison. In April of this year, he pleaded guilty as part of a deal with the investigation. Its terms suggested that he would be sentenced to the same term of imprisonment that had already been in custody. That was the verdict that was passed.
In November 2019, the US Border and Customs Service reported that an employee opened fire on a Russian citizen who was trying to illegally cross the southern US border. Later, the authorities clarified that it was about Glushchenko. According to officials of the department, he made an attempt to escape during the arrest, resisted when trying to put on handcuffs and took away the radio from the officer. His condition, according to representatives of the service, was satisfactory. And he himself did not show any desire to contact Russian diplomats.
At the same time, before that, Glushchenko had already been taken into custody in Arizona. Since September 2018, he has been in a pre-trial detention center after, according to the American side, he was taken into custody while trying to illegally enter the United States from Mexico with his pregnant wife. The court then ruled that Glushchenko should be deported to his homeland. As the Associated Press notes, he later tried again to get to the United States.
