By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
A St. Joseph man arrested by U.S. Marshals in California has been convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering.
Federal prosecutors report 32-year-old Montrez Dixon faces a minimum sentence of 10 years in a federal prison with the possibility of being sentenced to life without parole.
Prosecutors say law enforcement officers recovered a package shipped from Arizona to Kansas City, Missouri which contained 4,715 fentanyl pills. Dixon distributed that package and others containing thousands of fentanyl pills throughout western Missouri. In November of 2022, Drug Enforcement Administration officers and officers with the IRS searched a home Dixon has in Los Angeles, California. They recovered more than 7,500 fentanyl pills and a firearm, according to prosecutors. Dixon fled to Fresno, California, where federal marshals took him into custody.
A federal jury deliberated for three hours before returning the guilty verdict.
Dixon will be sentenced later.
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