An American teacher and former diplomat in his 60s has been sentenced to 14 years in a Russian penal colony after airport workers found half an ounce (17 grams) of medical marijuana in his luggage. Marc Fogel, an English teacher at the $34,000-a-year Anglo-American School in Moscow, was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in August after Russian border officials singled his suitcase out for inspection.Fogel was charged with smuggling and possession of a 'large scale' of narcotics. He pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling, storing, transporting, manufacturing and processing narcotic drugs, Russia's Interfax news agency said.
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