Arizona AG Office Warns Parents Of Fruit-Flavored Cocaine Going Around

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes warned parents Thursday that drug dealers are pushing “fruit-flavored” cocaine in candy-style flavors and marketing it to children and young women across the state, her office announced.

Mayes’ office said law enforcement has started seeing “flavored cocaine” — including piña colada, strawberry, coconut and banana — emerge as a new product on the illegal drug market, with batches believed to appeal to women and younger users and potentially laced with deadly fentanyl. (RELATED: ‘I’m Not Going’: Andy Dick Refuses Help After Reportedly Overdosing On The Streets Of Hollywood)

“We want everyone to stay safe and avoid the harms that come from using illegal drugs,” Mayes said in a consumer alert.

A line and a pile of fake cocaine made with flour next to a fake cocaine straw are placed on a table in Lyon in France on December 11 2025. (Photo by Matthieu Delaty / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)

The warning came as Mayes announced the sentencing of Jaden Alfredo Covarrubias, who prosecutors say solicited another person in Pima County on July 17 to possess about 1.55 pounds of cocaine for sale after advertising coconut, strawberry and banana-flavored batches.

Covarrubias was sentenced Nov. 24 to 1.75 years in prison and ordered to pay $4,500 to the State Anti-Racketeering Revolving Fund and $300 in investigative costs to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

Investigators said Covarrubias sold and offered to sell drugs on social media platforms such as WhatsApp, part of what Mayes cast as a broader effort by traffickers to lure new users with sweet-tasting products.

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

Her office also warned that any illegal drug obtained online or on the street may contain fentanyl and “has the potential to kill.”