WNBA Star Brittney Griner Returns To U.S. After 10 Months In Russian Detention Brittney Griner landed in Texas on December 8, after 294 days of detainment in Russia for cannabis possession. Griner’s release was secured with a prisoner exchange for Victor Bout, an arms dealer convicted in the United States. I #GettyImagesNews 📷: The White House, Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP, Evgenia Novozehenina/AFP, Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool, Meg Oliphant / @megoliphant, Christian Petersen / @christiankp21, Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP, Garrett Ellwood/NBAE, Chris Coduto 🎬 💻: @katharinelotze 🎵: “The Return Home” - Daniel Kadawatha / @epidemicsound