A Davenport man, Adam Christopher Smith, was sentenced on April 7 to ten years in federal prison for possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
Smith, age 41, was found in March 2025 with a distribution quantity of methamphetamine. According to court documents and evidence presented at sentencing, Smith attempted to hide the drugs under a freezer inside an ice cream store as officers approached him.
The court also determined that Smith violated the terms of his federal supervised release. As a result, he received an additional concurrent sentence of thirty months. In 2020, Smith had previously been sentenced by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa to seventy months in prison for possession with intent to deliver heroin and possessing a firearm related to that crime. He was released from prison in February 2024 but faced new legal troubles when an arrest warrant was issued in February 2025 due to violations of his supervised release.
Following completion of his current term of imprisonment, Smith will be required to serve eight years on supervised release. The federal system does not allow parole.
United States Attorney David C. Waterman announced the sentencing and credited the Davenport Police Department with investigating the case.
