.A past USA paratrooper and rock performer restrained in Russia greater than a year ago on medication charges was actually punished to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court system's press company claimed.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "managing a medication handling business involving youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse located him guilty of criminal offenses attached to the sale of illegal narcotics, the courtroom's media service said in an article on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was actually imprisoned together with Veronika Grabanchuk, another defendant sentenced of medicine fees. Her relation to Leake was actually certainly not quickly very clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have actually enhanced recently, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin tactic to secure the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.And many more American people held in Russian prisons are past marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, in addition to writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.