.A previous USA paratrooper and also stone entertainer detained in Russia more than a year back on drug fees was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media solution mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who overlooked the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "organizing a medication working service entailing young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse found him bad of crimes hooked up to the sale of prohibited narcotics, the courtroom's press service said in a post on Telegram. He was punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was put behind bars together with Veronika Grabanchuk, another accused pronounced guilty of medicine charges. Her association to Leake was actually certainly not promptly clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have actually increased in recent times, in what Washington considers a Kremlin scheme to get the launch of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.Among other United States residents kept in Russian jails are actually former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, in addition to writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.