Police: Fearful Miami undercover agent uses fentanyl under threat during operation to catch drug dealer

Miami police officers Randall Holloman on Tuesday and he was booked early Wednesday morning at the Miami-Dade County jail. (M-CRR, Google Maps Street View)

MIAMI – A 39-year-old convicted felon felt suspicious, so he forced a Miami undercover agent to use fentanyl, police officers reported.

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According to a police arrest report, the undercover agent’s nightmare started after Randall Holloman opened the door of a house in Miami’s Model City neighborhood.

The undercover agent reported asking Holloman for $40 worth of fentanyl. According to the report, Holloman said, “Who sent you here?”

Holloman ordered the agent to go to the back of the house.

“Alright, you gonna smoke, you gonna die. You gonna smoke or I’m gonna kill you either way,” Holloman told the undercover agent, according to the report.

Holloman signaled for the undercover agent to walk inside the house at Northwest Seventh Court and 55 Terrace, according to the arrest report.

“The agent in fear ... felt like ... had no other choice but to comply with the defendant,” a police officer wrote in a report.

Holloman “produced a piece of aluminum foil and a large sandwich baggie with suspected fentanyl in it” and “forced the agent to smoke” it, police reported.

Walter Kyles, who was also in the house, said he also suspected the undercover agent was a police officer and took a crossbody bag away to search it, according to the police report.

Eventually, Kyles and Holloman allowed the undercover agent to leave the house, police said.

According to the report, detectives took the undercover agent for a debrief at the Miami Police Department’s Central Station, and fire rescue personnel “cleared the agent.”

The narcotics unit reported returning to the house with the SWAT team and a search warrant and found Holloman near cocaine, a loaded Glock 17, ammunition, an extended magazine, and a loaded Zastava arms AK-style pistol with a magazine.

Police officers arrested Holloman and correctional deputies booked him shortly after 3 a.m., Wednesday, at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Holloman had been there before. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Holloman has also been in prison three times for convictions in Miami-Dade County.

Hollomon spent a few months in prison in 2008 after a conviction for carrying a concealed weapon in 2006. Also, from December 2015 to April 2018 and from December 2021 to Jan. 17, 2023, for a 2012 burglary and false imprisonment case.

On Wednesday night, Holloman faced new charges of kidnapping, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, selling cocaine, robbery by sudden snatching, and attempted manslaughter.


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