Complex sentence: 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.
Split into simpler sentences: Sellers first encountered the term "Dixie Mafia" when he was being tried in 1965 for a supermarket burglary. He said the FBI invented it to make their arrests sound more significant.