U.S. Marine Trevor Reed Back in Texas After Russian Prisoner Swap

U.S. Marine Trevor Reed landed in Texas this morning following his release from a Russian jail this week as part of a prisoner swap. Yesterday, the United States announced Reed had been exchanged for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian drug trafficker that was serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in Connecticut. The Reed family issued a statement yesterday thanking the various personalities and politicians involved in securing their son’s freedom from Russia and said ‘We understand the interest in Trevor’s story– and as soon as he’s ready, he’ll tell his own story.’ Reed, a former presidential security guard had been living in Russia in the Summer of 2019 when he was arrested by Russian police and accused of assaulting a police officer. He had been celebrating in a park with his longtime Russian girlfriend and her colleagues at the time, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison and convicted in July of 2020.