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Big Island man sentenced after being found guilty of trying to smuggle drugs through Kona airport

The 52-year-old pleaded not guilty in August 2025 to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin, and possession with intent to distribute those controlled substances.

Big Island man caught trying to sneak drugs past airport security in men’s shoes

The Transportation Administration Security said the shoes contained heroin, fentanyl pills, ketamine, meth, brown sugar heroin, acid tabs, Xanax bars and soma pills.