59 year-old Robert Alan Akito Kinoshita was sentenced to 155 months in federal prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

The incident occurred in Hilo on August 2, 2023.

The Court ordered that Kinoshita’s sentence be served consecutively to his ten-year sentence for unrelated convictions in State court for Promoting a Dangerous Drug in the Second Degree and Unlawful Imprisonment in the First Degree in relation to a Hilo incident that occurred on May 25, 2020.

As to the federal case, police reports indicate that Kinoshita was observed sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked in the Wailoa State Park lot. Following the execution of a narcotics search warrant, Area I Vice officers recovered over 2.5 pounds of methamphetamine and $6,600.00 in U.S. currency.

The investigation for the federal case was conducted by the Hawaiʻi County Police Department’s Area I Vice Section. This case was initially charged in State court and later adopted for prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Perlmutter. The State cases were prosecuted by Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys Ha‘aheo Kaho‘ohalahala and Elyssa Correia Keltner.

 

 

Photo credit: Hawaiʻi County Prosecuting Attorney