.A previous U.S. paratrooper and rock performer detained in Russia greater than a year ago on drug charges was actually penalized to thirteen years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court device's press company said.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually confined in June 2023 after prosecutors charged him of "coordinating a drug handling business including young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him responsible of criminal offenses hooked up to the purchase of prohibited narcotics, the courthouse's media company pointed out in a blog post on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually incarcerated along with Veronika Grabanchuk, one more offender convicted of medicine charges. Her association to Leake was not quickly very clear.Arrests of USA people in Russia have enhanced recently, in what Washington views as a Kremlin scheme to safeguard the launch of Russians sentenced abroad.To name a few American residents held in Russian prisons are actually former marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, in addition to writers Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.