.A previous USA paratrooper as well as rock musician apprehended in Russia much more than a year back on medicine costs was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media service claimed.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after district attorneys charged him of "arranging a drug working company involving youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse found him responsible of unlawful acts connected to the sale of unlawful narcotics, the courthouse's media service stated in a message on Telegram. He was penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was jailed together with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional offender sentenced of medicine charges. Her connection to Leake was certainly not instantly very clear.Arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia have actually increased over the last few years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin maneuver to get the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.Among other United States residents composed Russian jails are former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, along with writers Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.