Retired Marine Corps Officer Caught with Cocaine After Plane Emergency Sent to Prison

Retired Marine Corps Officer Caught with Cocaine After Plane Emergency Sent to Prison

Troy Othneil Smith, 36, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, admitting he had also mailed a package of cocaine across the country in 2023.

Retired Marine Corps officer caught with cocaine after Oceanside plane emergency sent to prison

A retired Marine Corps captain, who was caught with a kilogram brick of cocaine last year when the small plane he was learning to fly made an emergency landing on an Oceanside highway, was sentenced Wednesday in San Diego federal court to two years and six months in federal prison. Troy Othneil Smith, 36, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, admitting he had also mailed a package of cocaine …

Marine Corps vet who smuggled coke on plane that landed on freeway is sentenced

A decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was carrying cocaine aboard a small plane that made an emergency landing on state Route 76 in Oceanside last fall was sentenced Wednesday to two and a half years in prison. Prosecutors said Oceanside resident Troy Othneil Smith, 36, tried to hide a drug package from police shortly after the plane in which he was riding was forced by mechanical issues to land on the highway just after 1:30 a.m. Sept. 26, …

San Diego.- The pilot of a plane that crossed the border of Mexico to the United States with a shipment of drugs, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, during a hearing held in the Federal Court of the Southern District of California. It is Troy Othneil Smith, an aviation student who was arrested last year when the pilot plane had to land emergency in the middle of a street in San Diego, California. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office of the Souther…