'High-level' drug trafficker from Twin Falls sentenced

TWIN FALLS — The fentanyl problem rages in southern Idaho even as a local man was sentenced last week to more than 10 years in federal prison for d...

August 29, 2022
4:14 AM

TWIN FALLS — The fentanyl problem rages in southern Idaho even as a local man was sentenced last week to more than 10 years in federal prison for drug charges, being targeted as a "highest-level" drug trafficker, police say.Danny Eugene Smith, 28, of Twin Falls was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 121 months in prison in a case investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration and assisted by a handful of local agencies as an operation that targets high-level drug traffickers.Smith distributed large quantities of fentanyl in Magic Valley in 2020 and 2021, court records say, including three occasions where he sold a person fentanyl pills at a store parking lot in Twin Falls.

Pat Sutphin