.A previous U.S. paratrooper and also rock musician detained in Russia greater than a year back on drug costs was actually sentenced to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law body's media solution pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, who overlooked the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "organizing a medication working company involving youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him guilty of criminal activities connected to the sale of unlawful drugs, the court's press service claimed in an article on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually jailed together with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional defendant founded guilty of medicine charges. Her relation to Leake was actually certainly not quickly very clear.Arrests of united state residents in Russia have raised over the last few years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin ploy to get the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.To name a few United States people kept in Russian jails are past marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.