Mississippi woman puts fentanyl in 84-year-old man’s soda then robs him

RIDGELAND, Miss. (WLBT) – The Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced Thursday that a woman has been sentenced to serve 20 years after poisoning a man by putting fentanyl in a soda.

Dixie Cheyenne White, 31, of Florence, pled guilty to aggravated assault as a habitual offender.

Her sentence will be served 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 for 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.

The elderly man stated he met the suspect at the Food Depot in Jackson, and she 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 phone, two handguns, and two credit cards were also missing.

Using tag readers throughout the area, investigators were able to find the stolen vehicle back at the Food Depot with several people inside, including Dixie White.

White matched the suspect in the surveillance video from the Food Depot on the day the victim said he had been poisoned.

White was taken into custody and interviewed about the incident.

She confessed to investigators that she had met the man and convinced him she could work on his truck.

She stated that later that night, she poured some fentanyl into a soda drink 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.”

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