Cedar Rapids Fentanyl Supplier Sentenced to Federal Prison

A Cedar Rapids man who mailed thousands of fentanyl pills from Arizona to Cedar Rapids was sentenced July 7, 2025, to more than eight years in federal prison.  

Anthony Chan Dixon, age 35, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a January 21, 2025 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.  

Information disclosed at the sentencing hearing showed that Dixon moved from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Phoenix, Arizona, prior to 2022.  Beginning in 2022, and continuing through September 2023, Dixon shipped packages containing hundreds of fentanyl pills from Arizona to various fentanyl dealers in Cedar Rapids, totaling at least 4,500 fentanyl pills.  Dixon had previously been convicted of two felony drug offenses.           

Dixon was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams.  Dixon was sentenced to 106 months’ imprisonment, and he must also serve a three‑year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

Dixon is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison. 

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Dillan Edwards and investigated by the Johnson County Drug Enforcement Task Force consisting of the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the Iowa City Police Department, the Coralville Police Department, the North Liberty Police Department, the University of Iowa Police Department, and the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement; the Cedar Rapids Police Department; and the Drug Enforcement Administration.   

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 24-CR-00058-CJW.

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