.A previous U.S. paratrooper and also stone entertainer confined in Russia greater than a year earlier on medication fees was actually sentenced to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law device's media service pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was restrained in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "arranging a medication working company entailing youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom found him bad of crimes connected to the sale of illegal drugs, the courtroom's media solution mentioned in a post on Telegram. He was punished to 13 years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was put behind bars together with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional offender pronounced guilty of medication costs. Her connection to Leake was not quickly very clear.Arrests of U.S. residents in Russia have boosted in recent times, in what Washington views as a Kremlin tactic to protect the launch of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.And many more United States residents kept in Russian jails are past marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, and also writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.