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Traffic stop in Phoenix leads to sentencing of fentanyl trafficker
(Metro Creative Connection)
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A fentanyl trafficker has been sentenced to seven years in prison following his arrest last year in Phoenix, federal authorities said.
Angel Valencia-Avendano, 20, of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, was sentenced last week by U.S. Chief District Judge G. Murray Snow to 84 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to a release from the Arizona district of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Investigators were conducting surveillance on March 6, 2023, near 78th Avenue and West McDowell Road when Valencia-Avendano was pulled over for a traffic violation, and the vehicle was searched, the release stated.
In the dufflebag in the back of the car investigators found approximately 280,000 pills containing fentanyl. Investigators later searched Valencia-Avendano’s apartment, where they seized a handgun, another 3 kilograms of fentanyl, drug ledgers and $83,500, law enforcement officials said.
Both the handgun and the cash were forfeited to the United States.
