.A former USA paratrooper and rock performer detained in Russia more than a year ago on medicine costs was actually sentenced to thirteen years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media solution pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was restrained in June 2023 after prosecutors indicted him of "coordinating a medicine dealing company including young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom discovered him bad of crimes attached to the sale of unlawful drugs, the court's media solution claimed in a message on Telegram. He was punished to 13 years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually jailed along with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another defendant founded guilty of drug charges. Her association to Leake was actually not immediately very clear.Arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia have enhanced lately, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin maneuver to protect the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.And many more American people composed Russian prisons are actually past marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, and also reporters Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.