.A past USA paratrooper and stone entertainer confined in Russia more than a year ago on drug costs was penalized to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law system's press company pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, who overlooked the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually restrained in June 2023 after prosecutors accused him of "managing a medicine handling business entailing youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse found him responsible of crimes attached to the purchase of unlawful anesthetics, the courtroom's press solution said in an article on Telegram. He was actually penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security jail nest.Leake was put behind bars along with Veronika Grabanchuk, one more accused pronounced guilty of medicine charges. Her association to Leake was certainly not quickly clear.Arrests of USA people in Russia have raised recently, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin tactic to secure the launch of Russians convicted abroad.And many more United States citizens held in Russian prisons are actually former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.