Traffickers sentenced as Arizona AG sounds alarm on carfentanil

PHOENIX (AZFamily) β€” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is warning about dangerous narcotics after three recent trafficking cases ended with prison sentences or probation.

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.

β€œThe quantity that was seized in this case was enough to kill thousands of Arizonans,” Mayes said Wednesday during a news conference.

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…

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