.A past USA paratrooper and stone entertainer confined in Russia more than a year earlier on medicine charges was actually punished to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court of law system's media company pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was detained in June 2023 after prosecutors indicted him of "coordinating a medicine dealing service entailing youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him bad of criminal offenses hooked up to the sale of prohibited narcotics, the courthouse's press service said in a message on Telegram. He was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security jail colony.Leake was actually incarcerated alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another offender pronounced guilty of medication costs. Her relation to Leake was certainly not quickly very clear.Arrests of USA consumers in Russia have increased over the last few years, in what Washington considers a Kremlin maneuver to secure the launch of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.Among other American citizens kept in Russian prisons are past marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, and also journalists Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.