.A former U.S. paratrooper and rock musician confined in Russia greater than a year back on drug charges was actually penalized to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court unit's press company claimed.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually restrained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "managing a medication handling organization entailing young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court found him responsible of unlawful acts hooked up to the sale of prohibited anesthetics, the courtroom's media service said in a post on Telegram. He was actually penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary colony.Leake was imprisoned alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, one more accused sentenced of drug fees. Her relationship to Leake was actually certainly not promptly crystal clear.Arrests of USA consumers in Russia have enhanced recently, in what Washington views as a Kremlin tactic to safeguard the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.To name a few American people composed Russian jails are previous marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also reporters Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.