.A past U.S. paratrooper and also rock entertainer confined in Russia much more than a year back on drug charges was actually penalized to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law unit's media company said.Michael Travis Leake, that fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was restrained in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "managing a drug dealing service including young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse found him bad of unlawful acts hooked up to the sale of illegal drugs, the courthouse's press service stated in an article on Telegram. He was actually penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security jail nest.Leake was jailed alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another offender pronounced guilty of medication costs. Her relationship to Leake was actually certainly not instantly clear.Arrests of U.S. residents in Russia have raised in the last few years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin scheme to protect the release of Russians founded guilty abroad.Among other United States people kept in Russian prisons are actually former marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.