.A former U.S. paratrooper and also stone entertainer detained in Russia much more than a year earlier on drug charges was actually sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court device's press solution claimed.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors indicted him of "organizing a medication handling organization entailing youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him guilty of criminal activities hooked up to the purchase of unlawful anesthetics, the court's press company pointed out in a blog post on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security jail swarm.Leake was jailed alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another accused convicted of drug charges. Her connection to Leake was certainly not immediately clear.Arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia have actually raised in recent years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin tactic to safeguard the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.And many more American people composed Russian jails are former marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.