.A previous USA paratrooper as well as stone artist apprehended in Russia much more than a year back on medication fees was sentenced to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court device's press solution said.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "coordinating a medication dealing company involving young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him responsible of crimes hooked up to the sale of prohibited drugs, the court's press solution mentioned in a post on Telegram. He was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison colony.Leake was incarcerated along with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another accused founded guilty of drug costs. Her connection to Leake was actually not quickly clear.Arrests of USA citizens in Russia have actually boosted in the last few years, in what Washington considers a Kremlin tactic to get the launch of Russians convicted abroad.And many more United States consumers kept in Russian jails are actually past marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also journalists Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.