.A previous U.S. paratrooper and stone musician confined in Russia much more than a year back on medication fees was punished to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court device's press solution mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was confined in June 2023 after prosecutors charged him of "organizing a medication dealing organization involving youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court found him guilty of criminal offenses attached to the sale of unlawful anesthetics, the court's press service claimed in an article on Telegram. He was punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually incarcerated together with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional offender pronounced guilty of medication charges. Her connection to Leake was not quickly clear.Arrests of united state citizens in Russia have increased lately, in what Washington views as a Kremlin maneuver to secure the launch of Russians sentenced abroad.Among other United States citizens composed Russian jails are actually previous marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, as well as journalists Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.