.A previous USA paratrooper and also rock musician detained in Russia more than a year back on drug costs was punished to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court unit's media service pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors accused him of "organizing a medication working business entailing youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him guilty of crimes linked to the purchase of prohibited anesthetics, the courtroom's press service claimed in an article on Telegram. He was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually imprisoned together with Veronika Grabanchuk, one more defendant sentenced of drug charges. Her relationship to Leake was actually certainly not right away very clear.Arrests of united state people in Russia have actually increased recently, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin scheme to get the launch of Russians convicted abroad.Among other United States consumers held in Russian prisons are former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.