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PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is warning about dangerous narcotics after three recent trafficking cases ended with prison sentences or probation.<\/p>\n

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The first case involves Julian Magana, who was sentenced to 9.25 years in prison Friday after selling 10,000 pills laced with a synthetic opioid called carfentanil to a Chandler Police Department informant on Dec. 12, 2025, and then selling 100,000 pills to the same informant five days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quantity that was seized in this case was enough to kill thousands of Arizonans,\u201d Mayes said Wednesday during a news conference.<\/p>\n

Mayes said carfentanil is approximately 100 times more potent than fentanyl, 10,000 times more potent than morphine, and 5,000 times more potent than heroin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt only takes a very small dose of carfentanil …0.02 milligrams to be lethal, less than the amount of fentanyl that\u2019s found on the tip of a pencil,\u201d Mayes said.<\/p>\n

It was originally developed as a sedative for large animals such as elephants and rhinoceroses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the level of potency that we are talking about. A drug strong enough to bring down an elephant is now showing up pressed into pills and sold on the streets of our state,\u201d Mayes said.<\/p>\n

Magana had pleaded guilty to two counts of sale of narcotic drugs.<\/p>\n

In the second case, Bryan Fidel Crisoto-Cabrera was arrested for hiding packages of methamphetamine, totaling 238 pounds, inside his car after he was pulled over on Interstate 10 near Riggs Road on Jan. 16 while driving from Mexico.<\/p>\n

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He was likely part of a Mexican drug cartel.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt wholesale, this methamphetamine was worth roughly $238,000. But when broken down into the smaller amounts that are typically sold on the street, it would have generated more than $1.5 million in profit for the traffickers,\u201d Mayes said.<\/p>\n

Crisoto-Cabrera was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison on May 21.<\/p>\n

The third case involved a Phoenix couple who used their home to sell drugs with three children, ages 12, 4 and 3, living there. When police searched the house of Gilbert Borquez and Erika Acosta on Aug. 13, 2025, they found marijuana, THC, fentanyl and cocaine packaging, and seven guns.<\/p>\n

Borquez was sentenced on June 11 to 8.75 years in prison, while Acosta was placed on supervised probation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese three cases share something in common. Dangerous drugs moved in dangerous quantities by people who are willing to put profit ahead of safety in our communities. And in this last case, ahead of the safety of their own children,\u201d Mayes said.<\/p>\n

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