.A past U.S. paratrooper and stone musician confined in Russia much more than a year back on drug fees was actually punished to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law body's press solution stated.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually restrained in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "managing a drug working service including youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him responsible of crimes attached to the sale of illegal anesthetics, the court's media service pointed out in an article on Telegram. He was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was actually imprisoned alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another defendant convicted of drug charges. Her connection to Leake was actually certainly not instantly very clear.Arrests of U.S. consumers in Russia have actually increased in recent times, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin scheme to secure the launch of Russians sentenced abroad.To name a few American consumers composed Russian jails are actually former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, along with writers Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.