(File Photo: Source for Photo: Marc Fogel listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Allegheny County Police have confirmed on Tuesday that Marc Fogel, who was released last week from a Russian prison, has landed in Pittsburgh after a fourteen-year prison sentence. In August of 2021, Fogel was detained after his family noted that he was possessing seventeen grams of cannabis. Fogel wanted to treat the chronic pain in his back with the cannabis for medical reasons. Fogel’s family wants the public to give him some private time as he returns to the United States.