.A past U.S. paratrooper and also rock musician apprehended in Russia much more than a year earlier on drug fees was sentenced to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law device's media company stated.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after district attorneys implicated him of "managing a medicine working service involving young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom found him guilty of crimes linked to the sale of unlawful anesthetics, the courtroom's press company said in a post on Telegram. He was actually penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was jailed alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another accused pronounced guilty of medication charges. Her connection to Leake was not quickly very clear.Arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia have enhanced over the last few years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin tactic to secure the release of Russians convicted abroad.To name a few United States citizens kept in Russian jails are actually past marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, in addition to reporters Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.