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