Posted on: Thursday, February 27, 2003

Drug sale near school recounted

Advertiser Staff

An O'ahu man has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge David Ezra to more than 21 years in federal prison on four charges of trafficking in methamphetamine, including three charges that he sold the drug within 1,000 feet of a school in Wahiawa.

Ed Kubo, the U.S. attorney for Hawai'i, said FBI agents and Honolulu police officers built a case against Christopher Natividad, 41, after receiving numerous complaints about a man selling drugs from his van in Wahiawa.

Kubo said an undercover officer purchased nearly 172 grams of methamphetamine from Natividad, who told the officer to meet him at a park to pay for and be handed the drug. The meeting spot was across from Ho'ala School, according to Kubo.