U.S. Citizen Detained in Russia on Drugs Charges, Court Says

A U.S. citizen has been detained in Russia over alleged drug offenses, state media reported Tuesday.

Robert Woodland, 32, has been remanded in custody until March 5 over charges related to illegally possessing or acquiring drugs, Moscow’s Ostankino District Court said. He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, according to Reuters.

Woodland was detained on Jan. 5 and charged the same day with “attempting to sell and produce drugs on a large scale,” Russian news site Mash reports. It also repeated claims from a 2020 interview in which Woodland said that he was born Roman Romanov in Russia but was taken to the U.S. by a couple of American scientists who paid $10,000 to an orphanage for his adoption in 1993.

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