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Three Cantonment Men Charged With Theft, Sale Of Nearly Two Tons Of Phone, Copper Wire
April 11, 2025
Three Cantonment men have been charged with the theft and sale of nearly two tons of phone cables and other copper utility wire.
Frank Lee Johnson, 48, and brothers Chadwick Clay Dixon, 45, and Levy Bryan Dixon, 44, were each charged with first degree felony stealing copper or other metal interfering with communications utility.
Levy Dixon and Johnson are charged with additional felony counts of dealing in stolen property and operating as a secondary metal recycler.
The trio was allegedly involved with cutting down phone cables that each contained 200 to 400 pairs of copper phone lines as well as the theft uninsulated copper line. The wire was identified as belonging to AT&T and Pike Electric Company. Additional fiber optic lines were reportedly damaged in the process of cutting down the phone cables.
According to an arrest report, Johnson and Levy Dixon participated in the sale of 3,843 pounds of copper for approximately $12,000 to the High Cotton Scrap Yard in Frisco City, Alabama. The wires were first transported to their residence on Frank Ard Road and burned in a controlled homemade oven to remove the insulation. IT was then placed into a steel bowl on top of a burner before being sifted “so that it could not be identified in its original intended use”, an arrest report states and then transported 55 miles to the Frisco City scrapyard.
Johnson remained in the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $255,000, while both Dixon brothers were being held without bond. Jail records indicate that Johnson is also wanted by the Monroeville Police Department.
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9 Responses to “Three Cantonment Men Charged With Theft, Sale Of Nearly Two Tons Of Phone, Copper Wire”
Do the people that buy the copper ever get in trouble?
2 guys killed here in Philadelphia a month ago. 2 separate incidents but they both cut into energized transformers trying to steal copper. Instant Justice!
Here’s the thing! The address, where part of the criminal activity occurs, doesn’t belong to the habitual criminals. The owners of the property should be accountable for these activities and arrested. There is no excuse that they didn’t know what was going on.
Each of these guys have extensive criminal history. Lock ‘em up and keep ‘em there.
Idiots
The amount of money these fools cost the community should be repaid with DECADES in prison. They all have long records and have never worked a honest job in their life. At least in prison they will not be able to steal and take from the people other than our tax money to feed them
ESCO should contact:
– FDEP – They don’t have a Permit to burn insulation off wire.
– FBI – They engaged in criminal activity across State Lines.
– IRS – Not paying taxes on the money made.
These guys could be put away for the rest of their lives and their assets siezed. That might send a message to the others that are doing it.
Cops have been on Frank Ard Rd before for stolen utility lines. Theres an enormous amount of copper theft within a mile of there. Cant imagine these fine gentlemen have been at in for a while
All great plans of mice and men…
I suspect that it will be a few years; before they resume operations.