.A former USA paratrooper and also stone artist apprehended in Russia much more than a year earlier on drug fees was actually punished to thirteen years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court system's press solution said.Michael Travis Leake, who faced the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was detained in June 2023 after district attorneys indicted him of "coordinating a medicine working service including young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom found him responsible of criminal offenses attached to the sale of prohibited narcotics, the courtroom's press company mentioned in a blog post on Telegram. He was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security penitentiary nest.Leake was actually jailed along with Veronika Grabanchuk, another defendant founded guilty of drug charges. Her connection to Leake was certainly not promptly very clear.Arrests of U.S. consumers in Russia have increased recently, in what Washington views as a Kremlin maneuver to protect the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.To name a few American citizens kept in Russian prisons are previous marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, as well as writers Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.