text:  The 51-year-old American has lived in Russia for over a decade, where he was active in the underground punk music scene. He's also a former U.S. paratrooper. It was not immediately clear how Leak pled before the court, but earlier media reports say the American claimed not to understand the charges or why he'd been detained. A Russian woman, whom prosecutors accused of being his accomplice, was also sentenced to eight years in prison. Leak is one of at least a dozen Americans now in Russian jails.