.A previous U.S. paratrooper as well as rock entertainer apprehended in Russia greater than a year earlier on medication charges was actually sentenced to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court device's media company said.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was detained in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "arranging a drug dealing service including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him bad of unlawful acts linked to the sale of prohibited narcotics, the courthouse's press company pointed out in a post on Telegram. He was actually penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually put behind bars together with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional defendant founded guilty of medicine charges. Her relation to Leake was certainly not immediately very clear.Arrests of united state people in Russia have actually raised in recent times, in what Washington considers a Kremlin tactic to protect the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.To name a few United States citizens kept in Russian prisons are actually past marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also writers Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.