.A previous USA paratrooper and also rock entertainer apprehended in Russia more than a year earlier on drug fees was punished to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media service said.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was confined in June 2023 after prosecutors indicted him of "arranging a medicine working company including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse found him guilty of unlawful acts connected to the sale of unlawful narcotics, the courtroom's press company said in an article on Telegram. He was penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually imprisoned along with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another defendant founded guilty of drug costs. Her relationship to Leake was actually certainly not quickly very clear.Arrests of USA consumers in Russia have raised in recent times, in what Washington views as a Kremlin ploy to safeguard the release of Russians convicted abroad.And many more United States consumers composed Russian prisons are actually previous marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, as well as reporters Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.