.A past U.S. paratrooper and also rock musician restrained in Russia much more than a year back on medication charges was actually punished to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media service mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "organizing a medicine handling service entailing youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him guilty of unlawful acts hooked up to the sale of prohibited drugs, the courtroom's press solution said in an article on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to thirteen years in a maximum-security jail colony.Leake was incarcerated together with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another accused pronounced guilty of medicine charges. Her relationship to Leake was not right away very clear.Arrests of united state citizens in Russia have increased in recent times, in what Washington considers a Kremlin maneuver to secure the release of Russians sentenced abroad.To name a few United States consumers held in Russian prisons are former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.