A federal judge has sentenced a 50-year-old Kailua-Kona man to prison in a drug case.
A federal judge has sentenced a 50-year-old Kailua-Kona man to prison in a drug case.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge J. Michael Seabright sentenced Michael Sakuma to 20 years imprisonment and a $20,000 fine for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Sakuma pleaded guilty on Jan. 25, admitting in court to possession of more than 7 1/2 pounds of methamphetamine that he intended to distribute on the Big Island.
U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni, said that according to information produced in court, the Hawaii Police Department executed search warrants on Sakuma’s residence, a warehouse located kitty corner of the Kona police station in Kailua-Kona, where the methamphetamine was recovered from two safes concealed behind a wooden shelving unit.
In sentencing Sakuma, the court noted that he had been a significant drug dealer on the Big Island for some time, and that he was responsible for the distribution of wholesale quantities of methamphetamine.