Father, son sentenced for cocaine trafficking in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS – A father and son accused of trafficking cocaine in St. Louis were both sentenced to more than a decade behind bars.
A federal judge sentenced Gregory Dixson Jr., 53, to 15 years in prison, and sentenced his son, Gregory Cornell Dixson III, 33 to 10 years and one month in prison.
Both were sentenced on Wednesday. Dixson Jr. was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and complete 10 years of supervised release after prison.
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Authorities say that both conspired with others to bring cocaine to St. Louis from 2015 to 2021. Dixson Jr. admitted to at least 450 kilograms of trafficked cocaine, while Dixson III admitted to somewhere between 50 to 150 kilograms of trafficked cocaine.
In late 2016 or early 2017, Dixson Jr. and Dixson III sent couriers to Texas to buy several kilograms of cocaine from Miguel Angel Gonzalez.
In August 2018, Gonzalez was found in a hotel with two bags containing a total of $634,770 in cash. That represented a partial payment for 75 kilograms of cocaine being sold to Dixson Jr.
After this discovery, authorities seized eight kilograms of cocaine bound for St. Louis. Later on, in March 2020, authorities seized another 23.6 pounds of drugs, a mix of heroin and fentanyl that was also bound for St. Louis.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Dixson Jr. pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and conspiracy to launder money. He also agreed to forfeit $135,265.
Dixson III pleaded guilty to the same cocaine conspiracy charge as his father.
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