.A past united state paratrooper and stone artist restrained in Russia greater than a year back on medication costs was actually sentenced to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court body's media service said.Michael Travis Leake, that overlooked the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "managing a drug working company entailing youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom located him bad of criminal activities hooked up to the purchase of illegal drugs, the court's media company stated in a blog post on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary swarm.Leake was imprisoned alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, one more defendant pronounced guilty of medicine fees. Her connection to Leake was actually not immediately very clear.Arrests of U.S. consumers in Russia have actually enhanced lately, in what Washington views as a Kremlin scheme to protect the release of Russians sentenced abroad.Among other American consumers composed Russian prisons are former marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as journalists Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.