United States v. Purvis Ray Cartwright and Purvis Jerome Patrick

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Purvis Cartwright and his son, Purvis Patrick, appeal their convictions involving cocaine. Finding no error, we affirm.

I

In October 1991, undercover narcotics investigator Walter Redman met Patrick and agreed to pay Patrick $35,000, which was to cover the price per kilogram of $16,000, plus an additional $3,000 to “cook” the powdered cocaine into “crack.” Through October 10, the two communicated several times by telephone with the aid of digital pagers; on October 10 and 11, they spoke several times to set up a sale on October 11.

Patrick told Redman that he would…