.A previous U.S. paratrooper and rock performer restrained in Russia more than a year earlier on drug costs was sentenced to thirteen years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court unit's media service pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually confined in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "coordinating a drug working organization including youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse discovered him guilty of criminal offenses connected to the sale of unlawful drugs, the court's press service stated in a message on Telegram. He was penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was jailed alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, one more accused convicted of drug costs. Her relationship to Leake was actually certainly not promptly very clear.Arrests of USA residents in Russia have increased lately, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin maneuver to secure the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.And many more United States people composed Russian jails are former marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, along with journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.