WASHINGTON — Taylor Dudley, a Lansing, Michigan, man who spent nine months in Russian captivity, returned with his mother to Michigan on Friday after flying overnight from Poland.
Dudley, 35, entered the province of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea last April without the proper paperwork and was jailed by Russian authorities as he awaited trial for illegally attempting to enter the country.
He had been in Europe backpacking and traveled to Poland for a music festival. Family spokesperson Jonathan Franks declined to say why Dudley went to Russia, but said he had been listed by the James Foley Foundation as a wrongful detainee, which includes people detained primarily because they are a U.S. citizen or to influence the U.S. government.
