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weeks later, near the end of January 1986, he went to see Peper at his Warrenton office and bought a half ounce of cocaine, with the $1,150 the dentist charged to be paid from Nicholson’s sales, the prosecution’s witness said. “The deal was always the same. He’d give the coke to me, I’d pay later.”
Nicholson reeled off the details of transactions during the next year in which he testified that he bought amounts ranging from a half ounce to three-quarters of a pound, the price varying from $1,800 to $2,100 an ounce. Sometimes he picked up the drugs at Peper’s house at The Plains and sometimes at his Warrenton office, Nicholson said, telling of one occasion when the drug was left in a denture box underneath the sink in the office bathroom. Nicholson said he sold the cocaine to regular customers in Rappahannock County and Front Royal.
(Asked on Wednesday if the Rappahannock residents named by Peper would be prosecuted on narcotics charges, Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke said: “At this point, I don’t know what the Commonwealth is going to do. I need to talk to Rick Alderman (the Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney who prosecuted Peper on the distribution charge), evaluate the testimony that was given and review the ' transcript.” He acknowledged that the case against the Warrenton dentist was the strongest arising from the cooperation of Massie and Nicholson during the nine-month, multijurisdictional investigation and expressed his disappointment in the results of the Richmond trial.)
Nicholson said he made $200 to $300 profit from the sale of an ounce of cocaine, less than the average because he didn’t cut the drug with other substances. This money wasn’t deposited in the bank, he said, out of fear that the Internal Revenue Service would catch the discrepancy between reported and actual income. “I ate at nice restaurants, bought some nice clothes, paid a few bills.”
The normal interval between receipt of the cocaine and payment to Peper was two weeks, according to Nicholson’s testimony. “Usually when I went down to pay him, I’d get more on front. We kept it a corir tinuous flow.” Nicholson said Peper told him the cocaine came from West Palm Beach, Fla., but identified the supplier onlv as “Wes.”
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