HAVANA , June 25 (UPI) -- Judy Gross, the wife of a U.S. State Department contractor imprisoned in Cuba, arrived in Havana in an attempt to free him.
Alan Gross, a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor, was convicted in 2011 and is serving a 15-year sentence in a Havana military hospital for bringing satellite communications equipment to Cuba. Authorities claimed he was attempting to install illegal Internet connections.