.A past U.S. paratrooper and rock musician restrained in Russia greater than a year earlier on medication fees was penalized to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law body's media solution said.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually restrained in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "managing a medication handling organization entailing young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom located him responsible of crimes attached to the purchase of illegal drugs, the court's media solution said in a blog post on Telegram. He was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security jail swarm.Leake was actually imprisoned together with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another accused sentenced of drug charges. Her association to Leake was certainly not promptly clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have actually increased over the last few years, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin scheme to protect the launch of Russians convicted abroad.Among other United States residents composed Russian jails are previous marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.