.A previous united state paratrooper as well as stone musician restrained in Russia more than a year back on medication costs was actually sentenced to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law system's media company mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, that fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "arranging a medicine handling business involving young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom discovered him responsible of unlawful acts attached to the purchase of prohibited anesthetics, the court's media service claimed in an article on Telegram. He was actually penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was actually jailed together with Veronika Grabanchuk, another accused sentenced of drug charges. Her connection to Leake was certainly not instantly crystal clear.Arrests of U.S. residents in Russia have enhanced in recent times, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin scheme to secure the launch of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.And many more American citizens held in Russian jails are former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also journalists Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.