Two days later, on Friday, October 14, 2005, the second planned telephone call between Nate Farris and Arthur March occurred from the same jail facility. Obviously, the previously agreed upon jailhouse schedule had been accelerated. As with the first call, Pridemore and Postiglione were present. Postiglione provided a brief recorded statement prior to Farris placing the call. Following is an amended transcript of the lengthy call:
POSTIGLIONE: . . . thousand and five. The following is gonna be a telephone conversation between Russell Nathaniel Farris, also known as Bobby Givings. Uh, the time now is approximately four fifty-three
P.M.
The phone number dialed from the Criminal Justice Center is gonna be dialed to Mexico. Uh, this is be—uh, being done with the knowledge and cooperation of Russell Nathaniel Farris, he’s a male, white. I’m Sergeant Pat Postiglione. Also present during this recorded conversation is going to be Detective Bill Pridemore, Assistant District Attorney, uh, Tom Thurman [
sic
], and Assistant District Attorney Katie Miller. Also being contacted at the number given is gonna be Arthur March. This is a follow-up to the conversation that occurred on October twelfth, at approximately seventeen forty-five hours. This is gonna be second phone call made to the number that I’ve just given.
March:
Bueno.
Farris: Hey. Hey, Colonel?
March: Hi.
Farris: Hey, this is Bobby, how you doin’?
March: Oh, fine. Everything’s clear at this end.
Farris: It, it is? Great.
March: Yep.
Farris: Okay, uh, let me, let me go over . . .
March: Always be careful, though.
Farris: Yeah, exactly. Well I’m . . .
March: My guy said that, that he does not know of anybody that’s got something here good. You understand?
Farris: Yeah.
March: He checked and he said that nothing.
Farris: Yeah. I checked about my uncle, too, and he, he was arrested for marijuana charges down there in Texas, so, you know, he can’t do nothin’ for me, either. But, uh . . .
March: Yeah, well, you know it’s, it’s got all of us that do things have problems.
Farris: Yeah. Well, uh, I’ve got a guy here that I can, you know, that I can get an instrument from, but, you know, it’s just that, uh, you know, I want as less people involved as possible.
March: Your best bet, from my experience, is the black area of anywhere that you would look would be any for the—the cost is lower and the ability is cheaper.
Farris: Yeah.
March: But I would go to the black areas. And I’m sure you have some friends . . .
Farris: Yeah, I, I you know.
March: . . . or some, it, it’s . . .
Farris: I’ve, you know, I can . . .
March: That’s where I would go.
Farris: Yeah. Well, I mean, I could leave right now and go do that. It’s just—it, it’s a matter of people knowin’. You understand what I’m sayin’?
March: Yeah, but I mean there—the problem there is they don’t know and you can, uh, with them it’s an everyday sale.
Farris: Yeah, well, well, well, see . . .
March: Okay?
Farris: . . . here, here’s what I kind of, you know, I was thinkin’ that maybe if I did have to go that route, what I was gonna do is, uh, whenever I bought the gun, I was gonna try to get me a silencer, too. Because the way I’m gonna do this, you know, it’s gonna have to be quick and quiet.
March: Well, I don’t know how you plan to do it.
Farris: Yeah. But, uh . . .
March: But, uh, that, that’ll be—that’ll be more ex—that’ll increase the cost . . .
Farris: Um-hm.
March: . . . and the, uh, the total operation by at least fifty percent.
Farris: Yeah. What, uh . . .
March: But I’m being honest with you.
Farris: Here’s somethin’ I wanted to tell you. Like, uh, if, uh, you know I was thinkin’, you know, that you know, I, I probably will have to just locate one up here myself. But what I was gonna do, and, uh, I was gonna let a couple of people handle it. You know what I mean? And that way . . .
March: Yep.
Farris: And that way, you know . . .
March: If you go through se-several hands before it gets to you.
Farris: Yeah.
March: . . . that’s a good way.
Farris: Yeah. And, you know, then, you know, of course I’m gonna have gloves on, and, you know, my fingerprints won’t be on nothin’.
March: Yeah.
Farris: And, uh, you know . . .
March: Make sure that you, when you clean it . . .
Farris: Yeah, well, well, well, see this . . .
March: . . . you got your gloves.
Farris: . . . this is some of the stuff that I wanted to speak to you about. Because, I mean, Perry told me, you know, that you know, about your military background and, and, you know.
March: Okay, I, you know, I did Special Force time and . . .
Farris: Yeah.
March: . . . uh . . .
Farris: He’s, he’s told me . . .
March: . . . so . . .
Farris: . . . you know, a little, little bit about you, but, uh . . .
March: My suggestion is from the minute the product is got . . .
Farris: Um-hm.
March: . . . you wear thin surgeon’s gloves.
Farris: Yeah. Okay, uh . . .
March: You do not take them off at all.
Farris: Okay, well, look, I want to run somethin’ else by you. And, and . . .
March: Okay.
Farris: . . . and, I mean, I, I know that my end’s clear, you said that yours is, too, so I’m pretty—I feel pretty good about this. Okay, uh, the, uh—Lawrence’s wife, what I found out she does sometimes, it’s not every time, but I mean the weather’s been pretty good up here. When she comes back from, from takin’ the kids to school, like this apartment—these condos that she’s stayin’ at, she, uh, she kinda walks around some. You know, like gettin’ some exercise.
March: Uh-huh.
Farris: And, uh, like there’s a lot of people joggin’ out in this area. And, like, what I thought about doin’ is, uh, I can get a car from a buddy of mine. And, you know, of course he don’t know, you know, what I would do with it. And, uh, I found another car that’s kind of similar to it and I was gonna switch the tags on the car.
March: That’s—I was gonna say that’s the first thing you do.
Farris: Yeah, okay. Then I was gonna . . .
March: And you have at least—my suggestion is three sets.
Farris: Yeah.
March: What it came with . . .
Farris: Uh-huh.
March: . . . one you use, and one you return it to.
Farris: Yeah, yeah, okay, and here’s, you know, I’ve got a couple of joggin’ suits with the hoods on ’em. And what I, you know, there’s another apartment complex about six blocks away from where they’re stayin’. And I was gonna maybe park the car there and just, you know, kinda jog around the neighborhood, you know, to, you know, and, uh . . .
March: Either, either that or park one and use a different one.
Farris: Yeah, I thought about that, too . . .
March: And then . . .
Farris: . . . but, but you know, for me to do that I would have to, you know, somebody else would have to take me to one of the drops and I don’t want to do that. But . . .
March: No, you don’t have to do it that way. What you do is you predrop one.
Farris: Okay.
March: And then at a later point, use the second one . . .
Farris: Um-hm.
March: . . . or even a third . . .
Farris: Yeah.
March: . . . depending on—that, that’s the easiest piece of equipment you should be able to come by with.
Farris: Yeah, that’s, yeah, that’s no problem. But, uh . . .
March: And what I would do is use one, drop it immediately, pick up the second one and if (inaudible) even the third.
Farris: Yeah.
March: But that’s the way I—I mean, I’m just giving you some advice.
Farris: Okay, well here’s, here’s, uh, here’s somethin’ else I wanted to run by you. Okay, when uh, when, everything’s said and done, you know, I don’t plan on leavin’ right then. You know, I’m gonna lay back a little bit. You know I don’t, I don’t want ’em to . . .
March: Okay.
Farris: And, uh, but, but . . .
March: But you’ve always got a place here . . .
Farris: Okay.
March: . . . to relax.
Farris: Okay, well this, this is what I’m gettin’ at. Uh, uh, how am I . . .
March: You can bring your friend with you.
Farris: No, I don’t, I don’t—I’m not bringin’ nobody. The only pers—the only thing that I would bring with me would be my dog. You know I . . .
March: Okay. Well I got a Doberman, what do you got?
Farris: I got a pit bull.
March: Well, we can handle that, I’ve got a big yard.
Farris: Yeah. Okay, but here, here’s somethin’, too. Like, uh, you know, I’ve never been to Mexico and, uh, I mean, you know like, like . . .
March: Once you get here—once you get here, you got no problem.
Farris: Okay, well, well . . .
March: I handle everything.
Farris: Well, well see, I thought about, uh, takin’ a bus there. Because I don’t want to drive no car. But like . . .
March: Okay.
Farris: Where, where, where . . .
March: So, you get . . .
Farris: What, what . . .
March: You, you get a bus.
Farris: Uh-huh.
March: And you, and what you do is you just get it to Guadalajara.
Farris: I take—I can take a bus from Nashville to Guadalajara?
March: No, you have to change at the border.
Farris: Okay, I mean . . .
March: What you do is you walk across the border to the bus station. Anybody will show you where the bus station is.
Farris: Okay.
March: Get on a superbus—what they call a superbus.
Farris: Superbus?
March: And just sit there. It’s a won—nice trip down, it’s about, uh—the bus will take you twelve hours and it’s got a TV, johns, everything. Don’t worry about it.
Farris: Okay.
March: Don’t use—if you can, bring it either in cash . . .
Farris: Yeah.
March: . . . or in a card that you, that cannot be traced to you.
Farris: Yeah, well, yeah, well, I’m, you know, of course, you know. Well, uh, here’s something, too . . .
March: I mean, it should be made out to Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck . . .
Farris: Yeah, well . . .
March: . . . or something.
Farris: Well, uh, you know, I’m gonna have to get my instrument up here. It’s probably gonna cost me just a little more than I figured.
March: All right, well, I can give you the cost of covering it and going here.
Farris: Yeah.
March: From the border on. I can’t give you, uh, to there, okay, because I haven’t been up there and I’ve been—I’m not an expert.
Farris: Okay.
March: Once you get to here, all you do to stay, if you include with me . . .
Farris: Uh-huh.
March: . . . you can do it for less than one, one K.
Farris: Okay.
March: And be here at least two to three weeks.
Farris: Yeah.
March: Now, if you want to bring that partner that, you know, helped you get out of whatever it was. . .
Farris: Yeah.
March: . . . you told me, perfectly all right. And you’re an old friend and that’ll be taken care [of].
Farris: Okay.
March: And uh, the only difference that that makes, it gives you cover.
Farris: Uh-huh.
March: But it doesn’t allow you to play with, uh, the Mexes.
Farris: Yeah. Well, you know, Perry told me, you know, that that’s one of the key things down there is not to fuck with the Mexicans down there.
March: All right, okay bring your own.
Farris: Uh-huh.
March: If the one we, you know, we talked about the last time . . .
Farris: Okay.
March: And you know, if she’s willing, she also acts as a cover.
Farris: Okay.
March: Down here then, my people and I, we’ll handle everything. Once you get onto that bus and get to Guadalajara . . .
Farris: Um-hm.
March: . . . you have my phone number.
Farris: Yeah.
March: I’ll be there in—it’ll take me from my—where I am right now to where you’re gonna be, all you do is give me the name of the bus and I’ll be there within forty-five minutes.
Farris: Okay. Well, uh, now I’m, I’m gonna have to—you know, there’s still a few things that I’m gonna have to take care of.
March: I know. I don’t want to know everything.
Farris: But I—uh, okay. You know, but, uh, I might, I might need some, uh, just a little bit of funds. And, and the reason why . . .
March: Well, uh, if you do that, try to do it—or after the—try to do it the last day of the month or one of the first three days.
Farris: Okay.
March: Up to that, I can help.
Farris: Okay, because we . . .
March: Always equip . . .
Farris: Because what I’m . . .
March: ’Cause the end of the month is a difficult time . . .
Farris: Okay.
March: . . . for me.
Farris: Okay. Because . . .
March: I live on an army pension and I (inaudible) get paid.
Farris: Well, I mean, you know, I wouldn’t need, you know, not much at all just—because, like, you know, I’m gonna have to leave . . .
March: I can handle you and the friend. You understand?
Farris: Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, look, I’ll . . . March: If you try to pull . . .
Farris: Do, do, uh, you got a pen?
March: Try to plan it that—to get here either in the last week or the first week or second week of the month. It—for me, it makes it easier ’cause I’m . . .
Farris: Yeah.
March: . . . I’m under control. You understand?
Farris: Yeah. Well, uh, you know, ’cause when I leave here, I’m gonna leave, you know, I’m gonna have to leave my momma with funds that I have, because, you know, my mom, she . . .