Arizona restaurant owner sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for drugs, weapons

PHOENIX – An Arizona restaurant owner was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for drug trafficking and other offenses, authorities announced Tuesday.

Jason Felipe Gutierrez-Sandoval, 29, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, cocaine and heroin, as well as possession of firearms by a prohibited person, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.

Gutierrez-Sandoval, who owned and operated a Tucson restaurant, was arrested after delivering over 4,600 fentanyl pills to an agent of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization in 2023, prosecutors said…

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