.A former USA paratrooper and also rock entertainer restrained in Russia more than a year back on drug fees was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court system's press company said.Michael Travis Leake, that fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys accused him of "managing a drug dealing service including young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom found him responsible of criminal offenses connected to the purchase of illegal drugs, the courtroom's press company said in a blog post on Telegram. He was punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was actually imprisoned alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, one more offender founded guilty of medicine charges. Her relationship to Leake was not quickly clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have actually enhanced lately, in what Washington views as a Kremlin maneuver to safeguard the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.Among other United States people kept in Russian prisons are actually past marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, along with reporters Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.