.A former USA paratrooper and rock performer detained in Russia more than a year back on drug costs was punished to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law body's press solution said.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "managing a drug handling organization including youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom located him responsible of criminal activities linked to the sale of illegal narcotics, the courtroom's media company mentioned in a blog post on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary swarm.Leake was incarcerated together with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another defendant pronounced guilty of medicine fees. Her relationship to Leake was actually not promptly crystal clear.Arrests of USA citizens in Russia have raised over the last few years, in what Washington considers a Kremlin scheme to get the launch of Russians convicted abroad.To name a few United States residents held in Russian prisons are past marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, along with journalists Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.