A Fair Lawn woman was sentenced to more than seven years in a Russian prison after she was found with less than 10 grams of marijuana in her luggage at a Moscow airport, reports say.

According to the New York Post, Naama Issachar, 26, was sentenced to 7½ years in prison for possessing 9.5 grams of marijuana — an amount that would carry a maximum sentence of six months behind bars and a $1,000 fine in New Jersey.

In Russia, possessing more than 6 grams is a criminal offense, the Post reported.

Issachar, a Fair Lawn native who moved to Israel, was on her way back from India when she was stopped and found with the marijuana in her luggage, the Post reported. Earlier this month, she was handed the hefty prison sentence.

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Issachar's sister Liad Goldberg believes that rather than justice being served, Issachar is being used as a bargaining chip by Russia, to be traded for jailed Russian hacker Alexei Burkov, who was arrested in Israel in 2015, the Post reported. Burkov is awaiting extradition to the United States, the report says.

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Calls to numbers listed for Goldberg were not immediately returned.

Rodrigo Torrejon is a breaking news reporter for NorthJersey.com.

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