.A former USA paratrooper as well as stone entertainer restrained in Russia much more than a year earlier on medicine fees was actually penalized to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law unit's media solution said.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was detained in June 2023 after district attorneys implicated him of "organizing a drug handling company involving youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom discovered him bad of criminal offenses attached to the sale of unlawful drugs, the court's media company stated in a blog post on Telegram. He was penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security jail colony.Leake was actually imprisoned along with Veronika Grabanchuk, another offender sentenced of drug charges. Her relationship to Leake was not right away crystal clear.Arrests of U.S. consumers in Russia have actually improved in recent years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin ploy to safeguard the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.Among other American residents held in Russian prisons are actually previous marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, along with journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.