.A previous united state paratrooper and stone performer detained in Russia much more than a year earlier on medication costs was actually punished to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law unit's media service claimed.Michael Travis Leake, that fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "managing a medicine working business entailing youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court found him responsible of criminal offenses connected to the purchase of illegal drugs, the courtroom's media solution said in a post on Telegram. He was punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was actually put behind bars together with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional accused founded guilty of medication costs. Her relationship to Leake was actually certainly not promptly crystal clear.Arrests of U.S. consumers in Russia have increased in recent years, in what Washington considers a Kremlin maneuver to protect the launch of Russians sentenced abroad.Among other American consumers held in Russian prisons are actually previous marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, along with reporters Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.