Opinion ID: 792738
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Jerome Coleman

Text: 5 On the evening of June 6, 2003, Polk, Grady, and Coleman had a three-way telephone conversation to discuss plans to steal from a drug dealer's car. Grady had already participated with Polk in two thefts from FBI undercover vehicles that Polk represented were drug dealers' cars. Earlier that day, Polk and Grady discussed recruiting others to participate in another such theft, and Grady mentioned Coleman. Grady told Polk that he and Coleman had worked together in the jail and sold contraband cigarettes and candy to inmates. Grady eventually reached Coleman and then contacted Polk to say Coleman was ready to participate. 6 During the three-way telephone conversation, Polk told Grady and Coleman that his guy had set up the theft for that night and that there would be drugs as well as cash in the dealer's car: [M]y guy say there's gonna be some coke in there. So it'll probably be like, a, uh, a brick. Polk explained that the coke would go to his guy and the three of them would split the money. 7 Later that evening, Polk, Grady, and Coleman met to carry out the planned theft. Polk drove the three men to a movie theater parking lot where they found a red Chevrolet Caprice that had been parked there by FBI agents. Polk indicated to Coleman and Grady that this was the car his guy had described. Before parking the red Caprice in the movie theater lot, FBI agents had placed $12,000 under a mat in the trunk and a sham kilogram of cocaine in the spare tire well. 8 Grady broke into the Caprice while Coleman stood as a lookout, pretending to talk on his cell phone. Polk then searched the front seat of the car and popped the trunk while Coleman searched the back seat. Grady and Polk eventually found the money and sham cocaine in the trunk; Polk testified that the sham kilogram was packaged like cocaine he had seen on the street while working as a police officer. Polk transferred the money and the fake kilo to his car, placing both items under the driver's seat. The three men got back into Polk's car. As they drove off, Polk remarked to Coleman and Grady that he would give his man the coke. They then split the money—$5,000 apiece for Polk and Grady and $2,000 for Coleman.