.A former U.S. paratrooper and rock musician confined in Russia greater than a year back on medication fees was penalized to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court unit's press solution mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, that fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys implicated him of "organizing a medication handling service including youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse discovered him bad of criminal activities hooked up to the purchase of illegal narcotics, the courthouse's press solution pointed out in an article on Telegram. He was penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary nest.Leake was put behind bars together with Veronika Grabanchuk, another offender convicted of drug fees. Her relation to Leake was actually not right away very clear.Arrests of united state people in Russia have improved in recent times, in what Washington considers a Kremlin tactic to safeguard the release of Russians sentenced abroad.Among other United States people composed Russian prisons are former marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, and also reporters Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.