Update (June 23): Hector Cabrera Fuentes has been sentenced to four years in prison, the Associated Press reports.
On Valentine’s Day 2020, a security guard at a Miami hotel spotted a couple in a car tailing another car and snapping pictures of its license plate. Suspicious of the behavior, the security guard reported it to the police, who questioned and arrested the couple. It turned out, the FBI would later say, that half of the couple was prominent cardiovascular researcher Hector Cabrera Fuentes—and that he was surveilling an FBI agent at the direction of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
For a year, Cabrera Fuentes maintained his innocence. But recently the scientist pleaded guilty to spying for Russia in the US following an FBI investigation that also exposed Cabrera Fuentes’s double life; he had separate families in Russia and in Mexico. Two of Cabrera’s scientific colleagues tell The Scientist that they ...
