.A past united state paratrooper and rock artist detained in Russia greater than a year back on drug fees was actually sentenced to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court unit's press service stated.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was detained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "arranging a medicine dealing service entailing young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom discovered him bad of criminal activities linked to the purchase of prohibited anesthetics, the courthouse's media service claimed in a blog post on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was actually jailed together with Veronika Grabanchuk, one more offender sentenced of medication fees. Her relation to Leake was not right away clear.Arrests of united state residents in Russia have boosted over the last few years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin scheme to secure the launch of Russians convicted abroad.To name a few American citizens composed Russian prisons are previous marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, and also journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.