A local restaurant owner was sentenced to nearly four years in prison last week, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, cocaine and heroin, and possession of firearms by a prohibited person.

According to the Arizona Attorney General's Office, in 2023, Jason Felipe Gutierrez-Sandoval, 29, of Tucson, delivered more than 4,600 fentanyl pills, weighing around 454.5 grams, to another person on behalf of a drug-trafficking organization based in Mexico.

Investigators later arrested Gutierrez-Sandoval and searched his home with a warrant, where they found 12 small baggies with a type of cocaine known as Lavada and more than $660 in cash.

Agents also found a collection of firearms, ammunition and magazines, as well as a half-kilogram of heroin. Some of the firearms were load

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