Nalu Underground Surf Magazine Publishers Busted for Smuggling Drugs
I always wondered how the publishers of those free online magazines could pay their bills. The two brothers who started the online surf magazine Nalu Underground are under arrest in California for cocaine trafficking.
The brothers were arrested in June at the airport in Los Angeles before they could board a flight to Lihue. Court documents show that Michael Smith and one kilo of cocaine and Curtis Smith had two kilos.
Prosecutors say the brothers have been transporting coke from California to Hawaii over the past eight years, typically paying about $23,000 for the drugs in California and sell them in Hawaii for about $30,000.
Paying for that site wasn’t cheap. I sure appreciate that the Smith brothers would smuggle coke so I wouldn’t have to pay for their magazine.
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By- rockythompson
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October 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
That’s a horrible profit margin.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
i know. I thought crime was supposed to pay better. after they soak up the cost of those plane tickets they couldn’t have been making much over $6000. at that point you have to ask yourself, “why not just rob someone or get a job?”
October 29th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Rocky
You make it sound like smuggling drugs isn’t a job. Its hard work shoving 2 kilos of coke up your butt, stuffed in a giant condom, and god forbid there is turbulence on the flight.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:45 pm
hey as they crawl thru jail, they have plenty of time to ponder the sufferring they have caused parents and children, creating addicts , justice demands from those who profit from causing harm to others - learn the lesson….