Donald Blaine Smith (born September 18, 1947) is an American former sheriff of Putnam County, New York, and a retired United States Army officer.

Donald Blaine Smith,[2] born on September 18, 1947[3] in Danbury, Connecticut, grew up in the Putnam County town of Patterson, New York.

[1] Smith married Jane Powell (born 1951) on June 24, 1972, at the Holy Trinity Church in Pawling, New York; she died of breast cancer on December 6, 2015.

[1] That same year, records showed that Smith owned multiple properties in New York, Florida, and Virginia with a summative value of US$1.149 million (equivalent to about $1.428M in 2023).

[1] Smith's promotion from colonel to brigadier general was scheduled to go before the United States Senate on March 3, 1992;[6] he later retired from the Army at that higher rank.

[1] Smith has been a three-time officeholder with the New York State Sheriffs' Association (NYSSA), serving as their president, chairman of their legislative committee, and as a trustee on their executive board.

By January 2013, Smith had begun writing to New York and United States federal law enforcement agencies about Levy's alleged interference.

A friend and personal trainer to Levy, Hossu was arrested by the Putnam County Sheriff's Department on March 20, 2013, and charged with raping a 12-year-old girl.