The FBI has arrested a D.C. area man they say was a midlevel drug dealer who said in a recorded phone call that he was going to make his Tennessee supplier “stop breathing” for selling him poor-quality cocaine.
Rico Toliver was the target of an FBI wiretap for allegedly supplying PCP and crack cocaine to local dealers, according to court records filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. In a recorded phone conversation, Toliver bragged of having satisfied customers “in the city all the way to Annapolis,” according to the FBI. He also said that he’s willing to drive “all the way to Manassas” for worthy clients.
No lawyer was listed in court records for Toliver. He’s currently being held on an intent to distribute cocaine charge.
The FBI begin its wiretap of Toliver last month and recorded multiple conversations with an alleged drug dealer discussing the quality of Toliver’s product. The FBI asked a federal judge for an arrest warrant after recording a conversation where Toliver discussed going to Tennessee to recoup his losses after a faulty drug buy.
“I got to make a [expletive] stop breathing,” Toliver said in a taped conversation with an acquaintance, referring to Tennessee drug supplier who sold him an unspecified amount of poor-quality powdered cocaine.
According to the FBI, Toliver was unable to turn the drugs into crack cocaine and lost his investment. Toliver told an acquaintance that he planned on telling his Tennessee drug supplier that he wanted to buy PCP, and then was going to “rush” the supplier and steal the drugs to get his “bread back.”
The FBI filed an affidavit asking a judge for permission to arrest Toliver on Saturday because the agency believe he was planning on traveling to Tennessee last weekend. Law enforcement official tried unsuccessfully to put a GPS tracker on Toliver’s vehicle before the FBI filed an affidavit, court records show.
