.A previous U.S. paratrooper and rock entertainer detained in Russia much more than a year ago on medication charges was punished to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law body's press solution mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually confined in June 2023 after district attorneys implicated him of "arranging a medicine handling company including youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him bad of crimes connected to the sale of illegal drugs, the court's press service pointed out in a message on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison colony.Leake was actually put behind bars along with Veronika Grabanchuk, another defendant pronounced guilty of medicine costs. Her relation to Leake was actually not promptly very clear.Arrests of USA people in Russia have improved lately, in what Washington views as a Kremlin tactic to get the launch of Russians sentenced abroad.And many more American citizens held in Russian prisons are past marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, in addition to journalists Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.