The agent and informant strung Toby Jones and Fields along for several drug purchases, showing up without the guns and making excuses that the agent’s “guy” had not made arrangements to procure the weapons.
“My fault, man,” the agent told Toby Jones on Feb. 26. “I ain’t even had time to do that s—, man.”
Finally, on March 26, agents and the informant agreed to meet Big Red [Toby Jones], Little Red [Fields] and two other men, identified as “Individual A” and “Individual B” at a grocery store on the Southside of Chicago to exchange cocaine for weapons.
But Big Red did not show up, and abruptly ceased answering his cell phone, communicating only by text.
The three remaining men arrived in the grocery store parking lot and examined the weapons. Fields told the agent he wanted to buy the Glock and selected a Beretta for Toby Jones. Individuals A and B selected four guns, and agreed to take them and come back with cocaine to trade.
Agents arrested all three men on the spot, and put out a warrant for Big Red, Toby Jones.