{"id":704376,"date":"2026-06-14T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704376\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:07:22","slug":"gamecock-running-back-arrested-facing-several-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704376\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamecock running back arrested, facing several charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA\u00a0\u2014 A South Carolina football player was being held in the Richland County jail late in the afternoon of June 14 facing a litany of charges including breaking into property and theft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sam Williams-Dixon, listed as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gamecocksonline.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/player\/sam-williams-dixon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Dixon<\/a> on the Gamecocks&#8217; online roster, was being held at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center facing seven charges.<\/p>\n<p>They include: Three each of breaking into an automobile\/tanks where fuel is stored and criminal conspiracy, and one of grand larceny (more than $2,000, less than $10,000).<\/p>\n<p>He was booked at midnight on Saturday. He was granted a $150,000 bond, but was still detained at 6 p.m., according to online jail records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/GamecockCentral.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamecockCentral.com<\/a> was the first to report the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A school spokesperson confirmed that USC is aware of the situation. Per athletic department policy, Dixon is indefinitely suspended from all team activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dixon, from Pickerington, Ohio, transferred from Ohio State and went through spring drills with the Gamecocks. A running back, he had 10 career carries for 62 yards in two seasons with the Buckeyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was facing a crowded RB room at USC as one of seven vying to produce in USC&#8217;s offense.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA\u00a0\u2014 A South Carolina football player was being held in the Richland County jail late in the afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,33297,36314,398,396,397,304323,304324,304321,304322,99],"class_list":["post-704376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-gamecock-football","tag-gamecocks","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sam-dixon-arrested","tag-sam-dixon-larceny","tag-sam-dixon-running-back","tag-sam-dixon-williams-running-back","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}