The Dixie Mafia is a criminal organization based in Biloxi, Mississippi, and operated primarily in the Southern United States, in the 1970s. The group uses each member's talents in various crime categories to help move stolen merchandise, illegal alcohol, and illegal drugs. It is also particularly well known for violence. There were other groups called the Dixie Mafia and were found throughout the South. One was headed by Willie Foster Sellers of Surrency, Georgia. He and his cohorts specalized in burglarizing and robbing small town banks. Sellers first encountered the term "Dixie Mafia" when he was being tried in 1965 for a supermarket burglary however he said the FBI invented it to make their arrests sound more significant.
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