Two Valley police departments worked with federal officials in a case that led to the arrest and conviction of a 27-year-old man who supplied pills containing fentanyl for others to send through the mail, authorities said.

Dairon Jissan Rodriguez-Escalante, a legal permanent resident from Cuba living in Maricopa, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Angela M. Martinez to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Rodriguez-Escalante pleaded guilty on March 27 to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, according to a release from the Arizona division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In 2021, Rodriguez-Escalante was identified through social media as a supply source of counterfeit M30 pills containing fentanyl for other individuals who sent narcotics through the mail, the release stated.

In October and November 2021, Rodriguez-Escalante sold more than 650 grams of blue M30 pills containing fentanyl to U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Drug Enforcement Administration agents on two separate occasions.

The Postal Inspection Service, Drug Enforcement Administration-St. Louis office, Peoria Police Department and the Mesa Police Department Forensic Laboratory conducted the investigation, according to the release.

The Phoenix office of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, handled the prosecution.