Feds sentence Mike Smith; Curt Smith awaits February court date for same cocaine-dealing charges

Former Hanapepe resident and surf magazine cofounder Mike Smith has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in a federal prison, federal authorities said yesterday.

Mike and his brother, Curt Smith, were indicted by a grand jury in June for attempting to traffic roughly 5 kilograms of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport to Kaua‘i.

Mike Smith is still in pretrial detention in California but will be moved to a federal penitentiary once the bureau of prisons determines his placement, Assistant United States Attorney Rasha Gerges said yesterday.

California Central District Court Judge Audrey B. Collins sentenced Mike Smith to roughly 4 1/2 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to conspiring with his brother to distribute roughly 3,374 grams of cocaine; first by flying from Lihu‘e to Los Angeles in order to purchase the drug in California and then attempting to return to Hawai‘i with substance in hand to sell.

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(Source: Kauai Garden Island News)