.A former U.S. paratrooper and also stone musician confined in Russia greater than a year ago on medication charges was penalized to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law body's media solution pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, who overlooked the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after prosecutors charged him of "arranging a drug working organization including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him responsible of crimes hooked up to the sale of prohibited narcotics, the courthouse's media service pointed out in a post on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary colony.Leake was jailed alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another offender pronounced guilty of drug fees. Her relationship to Leake was not immediately crystal clear.Arrests of united state residents in Russia have boosted in the last few years, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin tactic to protect the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.To name a few American people composed Russian jails are actually former marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.