Man sentenced to more than 9 years in Buckeye heroin trafficking case
Submitted photo/Attorney General's Office
Edgardo Dominguez-Cortez was sentenced Sept. 28, 2026, to nine years and three months in prison for his role in a Buckeye heroin trafficking case.
Submitted photo/Attorney General's Office
Pills seized during a Dec. 21, 2024, traffic stop in Buckeye are displayed beside a cereal box. Police found about 8,000 pills that tested positive for heroin inside the box, according to the Arizona attorney general’s office.
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Edgardo Dominguez-Cortez was sentenced Sept. 28 to nine years and three months in prison for his role in a Buckeye heroin trafficking case, the Arizona Attorney General’s office announced Oct. 12.
A jury found him guilty Aug. 13 of conspiracy, illegally conducting an enterprise and transportation of narcotics for sale. His prison terms will run concurrently.
Buckeye Police found a cereal box containing about 8,000 pills that tested positive for heroin during a Dec. 21, 2024, traffic stop, according to the office. Dominguez-Cortez was a passenger in the car with Jesus Beltran Bajorquez and Marcos Ochoa.
Investigators found a video of the pill-filled box and messages about participating in a drug deal on Dominguez-Cortez’s phone, the office stated. The other men’s phones contained similar conversations.
Bajorquez and Ochoa pleaded guilty and were sentenced to four years and eight years in prison, respectively.
Dominguez-Cortez was on felony probation in Santa Cruz County for a money laundering offense related to drug trafficking when the crimes occurred, the office stated.
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