A Maricopa County drug dealer, Cristian Machado, was sentenced last week to three and half years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempt to commit sale or transportation of dangerous drugs, a class three felony and one count of possession of narcotic drugs for sale, a class two felony.
Machado’s sentence is to be served in the Arizona Department of Corrections with an additional four years of probation.
According to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, between May and June 2022, Machado supplied fentanyl and methamphetamine to people living at the homeless camp in downtown Phoenix. Undercover police work led investigators and detectives to Machado as the supplier of illegal drugs.