Former Kapaa man sentenced to 10 years for drug trafficking

A 60-year-old former Kauai man, who fled to California in 2013, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine on Kauai.

Scott Kaipo Burgess finally was prosecuted and sentenced for his role in a 2013 drug bust in which 227 grams of methamphetamine and more than $20,000 were seized, Kauai Prosecutor Justin Kollar announced.

Kauai Chief Circuit Judge Randal Valenciano sentenced Burgess, formerly of Kapaa, for second-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and drug paraphernalia.

Police and FBI special agents executed a search warrant Aug. 20, 2013, on Burgess’s house in Wailua Houselots, the Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney said in a news release.

A Kauai grand jury indicted Burgess in November 2013, but Burgess fled to California.

Burgess was arrested and incarcerated in California for unrelated drug offenses. Upon his release he was extradited back to Hawaii on a Kauai warrant.

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Man hides pipe in son’s diaper

WAILUKU >> A Hawaii man accused of hiding a methamphetamine pipe in his infant son’s diaper while police searched his home has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Aaron Moran, 55, pleaded no contest to two counts of third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and possessing drug paraphernalia, The Maui News reported Tuesday.

The charges were for hiding the pipe in the baby’s diaper and for an arrest after police reported finding a methamphetamine pipe in Moran’s vehicle.