.A previous united state paratrooper and rock entertainer restrained in Russia much more than a year ago on drug costs was punished to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court body's media company claimed.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually restrained in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "organizing a drug handling organization including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom located him bad of criminal offenses attached to the purchase of unlawful narcotics, the courthouse's press service claimed in an article on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary swarm.Leake was actually imprisoned along with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional defendant convicted of medication fees. Her relation to Leake was not instantly very clear.Arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia have actually raised in recent years, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin tactic to protect the launch of Russians convicted abroad.And many more United States residents kept in Russian jails are actually past marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, as well as journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.