.A previous U.S. paratrooper and also rock performer detained in Russia much more than a year earlier on medicine costs was actually punished to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law system's media company pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, who overlooked the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors indicted him of "coordinating a drug handling business entailing youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court found him bad of criminal activities connected to the purchase of illegal anesthetics, the court's press solution said in an article on Telegram. He was actually penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security jail colony.Leake was put behind bars alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, one more offender pronounced guilty of drug charges. Her relationship to Leake was actually not right away clear.Arrests of united state people in Russia have actually improved in recent years, in what Washington considers a Kremlin scheme to get the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.Among other United States citizens composed Russian jails are previous marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, along with reporters Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.