.A former USA paratrooper and also stone performer detained in Russia more than a year ago on drug fees was sentenced to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media service stated.Michael Travis Leake, that faced the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "managing a medicine handling service including youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courthouse found him bad of crimes hooked up to the sale of prohibited drugs, the court's media service said in a blog post on Telegram. He was penalized to thirteen years in a maximum-security jail nest.Leake was imprisoned alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, another offender founded guilty of medication fees. Her relation to Leake was actually certainly not quickly very clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have increased recently, in what Washington considers a Kremlin ploy to get the release of Russians convicted abroad.Among other American residents held in Russian jails are actually former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also journalists Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.