American Charles Wayne Zimmermann was arrested in Sochi for arms smuggling after spending nearly a year sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to meet his girlfriend from Kazan.

American Charles Wayne Zimmermann was arrested in Sochi for arms smuggling after spending nearly a year sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to meet his girlfriend from Kazan.

@mash 19 Jan 2026, 15:51

U.S. citizen Charles Wayne Zimmerman was sentenced to 5 years in prison for illegally bringing a rifle into Russia, which he transported by yacht from Carolina while heading to a girl from Kazan.

@ostorozhno_novosti 19 Jan 2026, 14:47