A St. Joseph man has been convicted of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and money laundering following a multi-year federal investigation. Montrez Dixon, 32, was found guilty on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, of conspiring to distribute 400 grams or more of a fentanyl mixture and of conspiring to commit money laundering. The case began on July 29, 2020, when law enforcement officers intercepted a package shipped from Arizona to Kansas City that contained 4,715 fentanyl pills. Investigators determined Dixon was responsible for distributing that shipment, along with additional packages that carried thousands of fentanyl pills into the Western District of Missouri. Authorities seized more than 7,500 fentanyl pills along with a firearm.