WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO POISONING ELDERLY MAN WITH FENTANYL
Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced today that Dixie Cheyenne White, 31, of Florence, pled guilty to aggravated assault as a habitual offender and was sentenced to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections without the possibility of parole.
On June 14, 2023, the Ridgeland Police Department received a call regarding an elderly man who was suffering from a drug overdose. The man claimed he had been poisoned by a woman named Dixie and that she had stolen his car. He stated that he had met Dixie at the Food Depot in Jackson and that she had offered to come back to his house to work on his truck with him.
When he was released from the hospital, investigators met with him again and discovered that his iPhone, two handguns, and two credit cards were also missing. Using tag readers throughout the area, investigators were able to locate the stolen vehicle back at the Food Depot with several people inside, including Dixie White. White matched the suspect in the surveillance video obtained from the Food Depot on the date the elderly man stated he had been poisoned.
White was taken into custody and interviewed regarding her knowledge of the stolen car. She confessed to investigators that she had met the elderly man and convinced him she could work on his truck. She stated that later that night, she had poured some fentanyl into a soda so he would go to sleep. When he was asleep, she stole his guns, credit cards, and car.
District Attorney Bramlett stated, “It is a miracle the 84-year-old victim in this case survived unknowingly ingesting fentanyl. The defendant could have easily killed this elderly man in her attempt to knock him out so she could rob him blind. I want to commend the investigators of the Ridgeland Police Department for all the work they did to ensure his property was located and the person responsible was apprehended.”
Defendant:
Name: DIXIE CHEYENNE WHITE
DOB: 07/15/1993
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