Wife Of American Jailed In Cuba Says He Feels Hopeless - Cnn.com

"He's not going to make it. He's going to do something drastic. I believe him when he tells me that," Judy Gross said Wednesday. Gross, 65, was arrested in 2009 for bringing banned satellite communications equipment to the island. Rubio: Cuba using Alan Gross as a pawn A State Department subcontractor, Gross had traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. government-financed project to help Cubans skirt their government's tight control of the Internet. Gross said he wasn't aware that he had violated the island's laws. But a Cuban court in 2011 convicted Gross of being involved in a plot to destabilize the country's single-party communist government. Judy Gross said that since the arrest she has visited her husband six times.