.A past U.S. paratrooper and rock entertainer detained in Russia much more than a year earlier on medication costs was actually sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court of law device's media service mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, that overlooked the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually confined in June 2023 after district attorneys charged him of "arranging a medicine dealing company including youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him guilty of criminal activities linked to the sale of illegal narcotics, the courtroom's press company pointed out in a post on Telegram. He was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security penitentiary swarm.Leake was actually jailed alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another offender pronounced guilty of drug charges. Her relation to Leake was actually not promptly very clear.Arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia have raised recently, in what Washington views as a Kremlin ploy to protect the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.Among other United States people composed Russian jails are previous marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, and also reporters Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.