WENTZVILLE, Mo. – Police bodycam video reveals how law enforcement stopped an armed drug dealer suspect who was working in both the city and suburbs.

The case was cracked with routine police checks, starting in Wentzville, where an interaction with a man in a Walmart parking lot led to gun falling out of the suspect’s pocket. Wentzville police officers then found another gun.

“Got another 32 right here,” you can hear an officer say on the video.

FOX 2 News can show you the bodycam video now because it just led to a conviction, which was secured by federal prosecutor Jason Dunkel.

“He had about 11 rounds of ammunition, some of which matched one of the guns that was on him,” Dunkel said.

An officer then pulled drug after drug out of the man’s pockets. The officer reached into the suspect’s pocket about 10 times, grabbing a different drug with each reach.

“He was walking around with all these different drugs he could sell to whoever, whether it was a fentanyl customer or meth customer or cocaine customer, he had whatever his customers wanted,” Dunkel said.

Because it was during COVID, defendant Antonio Dixson was able to avoid incarceration until about two months later, when he was caught by St. Louis police.

Officers found more drugs and two additional firearms.

“One of them had an obliterated serial number. It was physically scratched out,” Dunkel said.

Each case, Dunkel said, was instrumental in getting an accused drug dealer off the streets. Both began as routine police activity, with St. Louis police pulling over Dixson for going the wrong way on a one-way street, and Wentzville police checking on an idling car in a Walmart parking lot with no driver, but Dixson reportedly in the back seat.

“This shows the value of good self-initiated police activity. I mean, neither one of these cases started with a 911 call,” Dunkel said. “Both of these cases were officers out on patrol, being aware of their surroundings.”

Dixson faces a minimum of 10 years in federal prison when he’s sentenced in June.