The U.S. Army has confirmed that Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, an American soldier stationed in South Korea, was arrested last week during an unauthorized visit to the Russian far eastern port city of Vladivostok.
Black, 34, who is married (for now), was in the process of returning home to Fort Hood Cavazos, Texas, when he made the trip to Vladivostok to visit his Russian honeypot…I mean girlfriend. Needless to say, he made the trip without the knowledge or permission of his chain of command. Black’s paramour accused him of assaulting her, stealing 200,000 rubles (about 35 cents…that’s a joke), and, naturally, as this is a story about a Russian taking place in the Russian Far East, some alcohol.
A judge in Pervomaisky district court in Vladivostok has ordered Black detained until at least July 2 on charges of “theft causing significant damage to a citizen.” He faces five…
