In Pima County, Law enforcement officers apprehended two Mexican nationals named Francisco Ivan Osorio-Nava and Fabian Castro-Lopez. Both were allegedly working directly for the Sinaloa drug cartel. They also arrested eight other defendants, allegedly mid-level drug distributors, selling methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and oxycodone.
Fake prescription drug ring operators sentenced to prison
Separately, the Arizona Attorney General’s office announced that a mother and son, who operated a fraudulent prescription drug ring, received a sentence of three years in prison.
Between 2015 and 2018, the defendants identified as Frences Pope Adrian and Steven Hernandez, Jr., made thousands of fraudulent prescriptions for opioid and other narcotics. They stole the identities of numerous doctors and other medical professionals to make fake prescriptions look legitimate. They either fill the prescriptions at pharmacies or recruit others to do it, worsening the ongoing opioid epidemic/drug abuse.
Adrian and Hernandez pleaded guilty to fraudulent schemes and artifices, possession of narcotic drugs, and attempted possession of narcotic drugs.
