.A former united state paratrooper and also rock entertainer restrained in Russia more than a year ago on drug costs was penalized to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law device's press service pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors charged him of "managing a medication handling company including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court found him bad of criminal activities connected to the sale of unlawful narcotics, the courtroom's press solution mentioned in an article 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 sentenced of medicine charges. Her association to Leake was actually not instantly clear.Arrests of united state citizens in Russia have boosted in the last few years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin maneuver to protect the launch of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.To name a few American consumers held in Russian jails are former marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as journalists Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.