 for drug smuggling. Moscow's court service says Michael Travis Leake was found guilty of selling drugs on a large scale. The former US paratrooper has lived in Russia for years, where he was the front man in a rock group. When he was arrested in 2023, Leake appeared confused, saying he didn't know why he was detained. At a later hearing, Leake shouted, they're trying to kill me, towards the judge, and told reporters he had bronchitis twice because he was being forced to sleep on the floor of his cell.