WASHINGTON — Five suspects in the Russia spy case were hastily ordered to New York today amid reports that the U.S. and Russia are arranging a spy swap.

A scheduled court hearing in Alexandria, Va., for Michael Zottoli, Patricia Mills and Mikhail Semenko was canceled and the trio was ordered to New York where the cases against 10 of the 11 defendants will now be handled. The 11th defendant, Christopher Metsos, has fled after being released on bail in Cyprus.

In Boston, defendants Donald Heathfield and his wife, Tracey Lee Ann Foley, of Cambridge, Mass., waived their right to identity and detention hearings there and were being sent to New York as well.

The other five defendants were already in custody in New York.

In Washington, the third-ranking U.S. diplomat, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns, a former American ambassador to Moscow, had a morning meeting with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.

The brother of a man serving a 14-year prison sentence in Russia for alleged spying told reporters in Moscow that the U.S. and Russia are working on a spy swap.

Dmitry Sutyagin said his brother Igor, who is serving a 14-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S., was told by Russian officials that he was in a group of convicted foreign spies who are to be exchanged for the Russians arrested last month.