.A former U.S. paratrooper as well as stone entertainer restrained in Russia much more than a year back on medicine charges was sentenced to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law system's press company said.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually restrained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "coordinating a medication handling business entailing young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse found him guilty of crimes hooked up to the purchase of prohibited anesthetics, the court's media solution claimed in a post on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security jail nest.Leake was incarcerated alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another offender pronounced guilty of drug fees. Her association to Leake was certainly not quickly crystal clear.Arrests of united state citizens in Russia have actually increased lately, in what Washington considers a Kremlin scheme to secure the launch of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.To name a few American people kept in Russian prisons are past marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.