.A former USA paratrooper and rock musician apprehended in Russia greater than a year back on medication costs was actually punished to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court unit's media solution mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was confined in June 2023 after prosecutors charged him of "arranging a drug working business entailing youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse discovered him bad of criminal offenses hooked up to the purchase of illegal drugs, the court's media solution pointed out in a blog post on Telegram. He was penalized to 13 years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually put behind bars together with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another accused convicted of medication charges. Her connection to Leake was certainly not immediately very clear.Arrests of USA consumers in Russia have boosted in the last few years, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin tactic to protect the release of Russians sentenced abroad.To name a few United States consumers held in Russian prisons are actually past marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.