A 39-year-old felon who got $12.5 million from the city after he was hurt in a 2021 police pursuit will spend a decade in federal prison for using a ghost gun while marketing methamphetamine in Waianae two months after he got the money.

Jonaven Perkins-Sinapati of Waianae was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Shanlyn A.S. Park to 120 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and illegally possessing ammunition as a convicted felon.

The city can’t get the money back despite his 10-year federal prison sentence for drug and gun crimes. City settlement agreements are generally not contingent upon future conduct.

Perkins-Sinapati pleaded guilty May 14 as part of a plea agreement with the U.S. Dep

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