.A previous U.S. paratrooper and rock entertainer detained in Russia much more than a year ago on medicine fees was sentenced to thirteen years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court of law body's media company mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually restrained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "coordinating a drug handling business entailing youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him guilty of crimes linked to the sale of unlawful drugs, the court's press service claimed in a message on Telegram. He was penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security prison colony.Leake was actually incarcerated alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another defendant pronounced guilty of drug fees. Her relationship to Leake was not instantly clear.Arrests of united state residents in Russia have actually improved in recent times, in what Washington considers a Kremlin tactic to get the release of Russians convicted abroad.To name a few United States consumers held in Russian jails are actually past marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.