Cedar Rapids Man Pleads Guilty To Crack Conspiracy
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who conspired to distribute crack cocaine in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, pled guilty on August 9, 2010, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
James Joshua Toliver, age 26, from Cedar Rapids, was convicted of conspiring to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine between about March and June 2010. Toliver was convicted in 2005 in Cook County, Illinois, of felony manufacture or delivery of between 10 and 30 grams of cannabis near a school.
Sentencing before United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade will be set after a presentence report is prepared. Toliver remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing. Toliver faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of life imprisonment, an $8,000,000 fine, a $100 special assessment, and at least 10 years, and up to life, of supervised release following any imprisonment.
The case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Dan Chatham and was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Task Force consisting of the DEA; the Linn County Sheriff's Office; the Cedar Rapids Police Department; the Marion Police Department; the Iowa City Police Department; the Clinton Police Department; the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Sixth Judicial District Department of Correctional Services; and the Iowa National Guard..
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR-10-0049-2-LRR.
