.A former U.S. paratrooper as well as rock entertainer detained in Russia much more than a year earlier on medication charges was actually punished to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law system's media service mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was detained in June 2023 after district attorneys charged him of "arranging a medication working service including young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom found him bad of crimes hooked up to the purchase of prohibited anesthetics, the courthouse's media company claimed in a post on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security penitentiary colony.Leake was jailed alongside Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional accused sentenced of medication charges. Her relation to Leake was actually not immediately crystal clear.Arrests of united state residents in Russia have improved in recent years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin tactic to get the launch of Russians founded guilty abroad.Among other American citizens composed Russian prisons are actually previous marines Robert Gilman and Paul Whelan, and also journalists Evan Gershkovich as well as Alsu Kurmasheva.