.A past USA paratrooper and also rock musician apprehended in Russia much more than a year ago on medicine costs was penalized to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law system's media company claimed.Michael Travis Leake, that fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys implicated him of "managing a medicine dealing business including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him guilty of criminal activities hooked up to the sale of prohibited drugs, the courthouse's press solution mentioned in a message on Telegram. He was actually penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was put behind bars alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another accused sentenced of medicine fees. Her association to Leake was actually not quickly crystal clear.Arrests of united state consumers in Russia have boosted in recent years, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin scheme to get the release of Russians sentenced abroad.To name a few United States people kept in Russian prisons are past marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, along with journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.