An Alabama software engineer who was convicted of stealing trade secrets from a Pensacola-based company and extorting the local company’s owners, is going to prison. United States District Judge M. Casey Rodgers sentenced 43-year-old Timothy J. Smith, of Mobile, to a year and a half in federal prison. Smith was accused of obtaining private information valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars from Strike Lines, a Pensacola company that uses commercial side scan sonar equipment to locate fishing reefs in the Gulf of Mexico, then sells the coordinates. Judge Rodgers, said it was her opinion that Smith acted out of spite” and “arrogance.