SALT LAKE CITY — Two men from Arizona were sentenced in federal court to multiple years in prison for trafficking 40,000 fentanyl pills to Utah.
Dominic Jared Arias Aceves, 23, and Cristo Alexander Urias Salazar, 32, were sentenced by a U.S. District Court judge for trafficking drugs from Arizona to Utah for further distribution. Aceves, of Arizona, and Salazar, who is from Mexico but has been living in Arizona, pleaded guilty in May to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute.
FBI agents began investigating the men, and other alleged members of a drug trafficking organization, in October 2024. On Oct. 21, agents executed a search warrant for a hotel room in Salt Lake City where officials believed the men were staying, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said…