The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow sentenced US citizen, musician Michael Travis Leak to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony in a drug case. This was reported by the united press service of the capital's courts.
Lick was found guilty of attempted drug trafficking (paragraphs «a», «b», part 3 and paragraph «g» of part 4 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code with the application of part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code) and illegal possession and acquisition of drugs (part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). Russian Veronika Grabanchuk was also involved in the case — she was sentenced to eight years in a general regime penal colony, she pleaded guilty.
According to investigators, the US citizen organized the sale of mephedrone «with the involvement of young people.» The musician's arrest became known in the summer of 2023. On June 11 of the same year, Lik was placed in a pretrial detention center by decision of the Khamovnichesky Court.
«Consulted his friends on how not to love Russia.» In Moscow, musician Travis Lik from the USA was arrested for drug trafficking. He collaborated with the bands Louna and «Tarakany!»
After the musician's arrest, the REN TV channel, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reported that security forces conducted a search of Lik's apartment. The TV channel's source claimed that the US citizen «blackmailed girls and forced them to make caches,» and that security forces found scales, ziplock bags, duct tape, and «a substance of unknown origin» in his apartment. The man himself denied guilt in the case.
Since 2010, Lik lived in Moscow. Before moving, he served as a paratrooper in the United States, and at the time of his arrest, he was a musician in the group «Lovi Noch.» In addition, for a long time, he produced the groups Louna, Slot, and Tarakany!