39 year-old Clint K. Delos Santos of Hilo was sentenced to twenty years in prison for two drug related incidents.

On Friday, Delos Santos appeared in Hilo Circuit Court where he was sentenced to a twenty-year prison term in each case.. The Court ordered that the sentences be served concurrently for a total of twenty years.

According to police, on On February 9, 2022, Area I Vice officers executing a narcotics search warrant upon Delos Santos’ Honda Accord, which was previously parked within the parking lot of the Reeds Bay Hotel in Hilo, recovered about two ounces of methamphetamine and seven clean and unused zip packets. On September 26, 2023, Area II Vice officers executing a narcotics search warrant recovered nearly six ounces of methamphetamine, two digital scales, over fifty clean and unused empty red zip packets, and other drug paraphernalia from Delos Santos’ Kona apartment.

On May 30, 2024, Delos Santos appeared in Hilo Circuit Court where he entered a “Guilty”
plea to the offense of Promoting a Dangerous Drug in the First Degree.

Promoting a Dangerous Drug in the First Degree (knowingly possess more than one ounce of
methamphetamine) is a class A felony which carries a maximum penalty of a twenty-year prison
term or ten years probation and up to two years in jail.

The cases were prosecuted by Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys Kaua Jackson and Patrick Muñoz.

 

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