An Arkadelphia man is facing felony drug charges after a traffic stop on Interstate 30 yielded a substantial amount of cocaine and cash.
According to court documents filed this week in Clark County Circuit Court, 40-year-old Torey Len Dixon was pulled over Oct. 17 near the 78 mile marker after a state trooper ran his license plate to discover Dixon had an active warrant for his arrest. Dixon was traveling west in an orange Dodge Charger when the traffic stop was initiated.
Trooper Kemp Smith instructed a “visibly nervous and tense” Dixon to exit the vehicle. He was then handcuffed and placed in the rear of the trooper’s vehicle. A Caddo Valley policeman arrived at the scene and called Dixon’s warrant into dispatch, learning it was valid and that Dixon was wanted at the detention facility. Dixon requested that his phone be retrieved from the vehicle.
Trooper Smith conducted an inventory of Dixon’s vehicle, finding a shaving bag on the driver’s seat floorboard. The contents of the bag, however, weren’t for grooming — instead, it contained suspected cocaine in a clear plastic bag and two “bundles” of cash wrapped in rubber bands, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The cocaine weighed 57.68 grams — equivalent to 2 ounces, or 16 “8-balls” — and the cash added up to $16,700. Dixon later told authorities he had been selling cocaine for about a month, the affidavit notes.
He was booked into the Clark County Jail, where booking records show he was held for continued detention.
9E Prosecuting Attorney Dan Turner filed charges of Possession of Cocaine with Purpose to Deliver with an habitual offender enhancement, a Class A felony punishable by six to 50 years in prison.
Listing himself as a disabled veteran, 9E Circuit Judge Blake Batson denied Dixon’s request for indigence. Bond was set for $80,000. He remained in custody on Oct. 28. His defense is listed as Caddo Valley attorney Joseph Jackson of the public defender’s office.
Dixon has a lengthy criminal history with a felony rap sheet dating to 2006, when he was convicted of drug-related charges in Hot Spring County.
In 2016 he was found guilty in Clark County for a charge of terroristic threatening. In 2019 he was charged with aggravated assault on a household member and breaking or entering, and was given supervised probation in a plea deal.
He was again arrested on felony charges in 2022 in Little Rock, where state police heard reports that he threatened another driver with a loaded gun on Interstate 430 during a road rage incident. The gun confiscated during that arrest turned out to be reported stolen in Arkadelphia. Dixon was charged with several felonies as a result of the road rage incident, although charges in that case were dropped in 2023, according to online court records.
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