.A previous U.S. paratrooper and also rock performer detained in Russia more than a year back on medication costs was punished to thirteen years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court of law unit's media solution stated.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys charged him of "managing a drug working organization including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him bad of criminal offenses attached to the purchase of unlawful drugs, the court's press service claimed in a blog post on Telegram. He was actually penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security jail colony.Leake was incarcerated alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another defendant convicted of drug fees. Her connection to Leake was not promptly very clear.Arrests of united state consumers in Russia have actually increased recently, in what Washington considers a Kremlin maneuver to get the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.Among other United States consumers composed Russian prisons are actually previous marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as reporters Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.