A federal jury in Kansas City, Missouri, has convicted Montrez Dixon, 32, of St. Joseph, Missouri, on charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering. The verdict was delivered on September 18, 2025, after a trial that began earlier in the week.
Dixon was found guilty of conspiring to distribute at least 400 grams of fentanyl and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. Three co-defendants had previously pleaded guilty in connection with the case.
According to evidence presented during the trial, law enforcement recovered a package containing 4,715 fentanyl pills shipped from Arizona to Kansas City on July 29, 2020. Investigators determined that Dixon distributed this and other packages containing thousands of fentanyl pills throughout the Western District of Missouri. On November 30, 2022, agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Internal Revenue Service executed a search warrant at Dixon’s residence in Los Angeles, California. They seized more than 7,500 fentanyl pills and a firearm. Dixon subsequently fled to Fresno, California, where he was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Under federal law, Dixon faces a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years in prison without parole and could receive up to life imprisonment without parole. The final sentence will be determined by the court following a presentence investigation conducted by the United States Probation Office.
The jury deliberated for about three hours before returning their verdicts to U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maureen A. Brackett and John C. Constance are prosecuting the case. The investigation involved multiple agencies including the DEA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), police departments from Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas), Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office (Missouri), St. Joseph Police Department (Missouri), Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory (Missouri), and DEA-North Central Laboratory.
The prosecution is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation aimed at disrupting high-level criminal organizations through coordinated efforts among several agencies. More information about OCDETF can be found at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.
