.A previous USA paratrooper and rock musician apprehended in Russia greater than a year earlier on medicine costs was actually punished to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court system's press service said.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "managing a medicine dealing business entailing youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse located him responsible of criminal offenses connected to the sale of unlawful anesthetics, the courtroom's press company pointed out in a post on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary colony.Leake was imprisoned alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, one more accused sentenced of drug fees. Her relation to Leake was actually not right away very clear.Arrests of united state consumers in Russia have actually boosted recently, in what Washington considers a Kremlin tactic to get the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.Among other United States consumers composed Russian jails are past marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, along with writers Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.