Attorney General Mayes Announces Drug Sentencing and Issues Consumer Alert Related to Fruit-Flavored Cocaine

TUCSON - Today Attorney General Mayes announced a sentence her office has secured for a drug dealer selling fruit-flavored cocaine and issued a consumer warning about the new product on the illegal drug market. 

In Pima County Arizona, on July 17, 2025, Jaden Alfredo Covarrubias knowingly solicited another person to possess approximately 1.55 pounds of cocaine for sale. Covarrubias said he had access to coconut, strawberry, and banana flavored cocaine. Mr. Covarrubias also sold and offered to sell drugs on social media platforms like WhatsApp. 

"My office will continue to hold accountable those illegally trafficking and selling drugs in our communities," said Attorney General Mayes.

Attorney General Mayes announces that Covarrubias has been sentenced to 1.75 years in prison and ordered ordered to pay $4,500 to the State Anti-Racketeering Revolving Fund and $300 in investigative costs to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Covarrubias was sentenced on November 24, 2025.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety investigated this case and Assistant Attorney General Sabrina Lochner prosecuted the case. A copy of the booking photo is available here. A copy of the indictment is available here.

CONSUMER ALERT: 
 

"Today we are issuing a consumer alert for this new illegal drug that's being sold to kids and young women. It's called flavored cocaine and it's being sold in the flavors like pina colada, strawberry, coconut, and banana," said Mayes. "Drugs like cocaine are often laced with deadly fentanyl and we want everyone to be aware of it."

The Arizona Attorney General's Office is alerting the public that law enforcement is seeing flavored cocaine arise as a new product on the illegal drug market. Cocaine dealers are marketing fruit flavored batches believed to appeal more to women and younger users, attempting to lure new users to the drug. Any illegal drug that you obtain online or on the street, may contain fentanyl and has the potential to kill.

"We want everyone to stay safe and avoid the harms that come from using illegal drugs," added Mayes.