Carlos Victor Passapera Pinott was arrested in 2020 on suspicion of smuggling cocaine, heroin and fentanyl from a remote desert area about 150 miles southwest of Tucson.
Nina Trasoff, the one-term Democrat who lost her reelection bid 2009 to Kozachik — then a Tea Party-supported candidate — and Karin Uhlich, who has previously represented Ward 3, are among those vying for the position.