A lovesick American has been sentenced to five years in a brutal Russian penal colony after sailing his yacht to the country with a rifle on board in a doomed 11-month plot to meet a woman he met online.
Charles Wayne Zimmerman, believed to be 58 or 59, was convicted of illegally transporting weapons after Russian customs officials discovered a rifle and ammo on board his boat, the Trude Zena, when he docked in the Black Sea port of Sochi on June 19, 2025, the Moscow Times reported.
The North Carolina man told a Russian court he had sailed across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to meet a woman he had first contacted online.
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“He met a girl who lives in Kazan through the internet and
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