.A past U.S. paratrooper as well as rock performer detained in Russia much more than a year earlier on medication fees was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court device's press solution claimed.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "organizing a medicine dealing company including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him responsible of criminal activities attached to the purchase of unlawful drugs, the courthouse's press solution pointed out in a message on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary nest.Leake was actually imprisoned along with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional accused convicted of medication charges. Her association to Leake was certainly not right away very clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have actually improved in recent years, in what Washington considers a Kremlin tactic to get the release of Russians sentenced abroad.To name a few American citizens kept in Russian jails are actually previous marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, and also writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.