David Lee Gay Jr., a manager for rapper Plies, was arrested on Tuesday after police seized more than 80 pounds of cocaine from him in Tampa, Florida. The Tampa Tribune reports that from September 21 through November 12, Gay, 35, entered into an agreement to traffic at least 6 kilos of cocaine.

According to a police affidavit, at least six times during that period, Gay, who worked for Isabomb Entertainment, received and sold a half-kilogram to a kilogram of cocaine, with testimony from a co-defendant and intercepted phone calls providing evidence of his involvement in the drug business.

When a search warrant was executed on Gay's home late Tuesday, police reportedly found a 9mm Taurus handgun under a mattress in a master bedroom, as well as 10 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and almost $8,000 in cash. Police said Gay paid $6,000 for a kilo of cocaine from a co-defendant in the case, Eleazar Gutierrez-Castillo, who was also arrested Tuesday evening on cocaine trafficking charges and who agreed to cooperate with police. The affidavit stated that after Gay made the initial payment for the kilo, he was supposed to pay Gutierrez-Castillo an additional $8,000 to "consummate the deal."

Police said Gutierrez-Castillo met with Gay at the manager's home Tuesday night, but Gay became nervous when he saw what he believed to be law enforcement officers in the neighborhood, prompting him to back out of the drug deal and asking Gutierrez-Castillo what he had done to wrong him, according to the paper.

Gay faces several state and federal charges, including possession of cocaine, racketeering, being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, armed trafficking, racketeering and several conspiracy charges. At press time, Gay remained in jail, with no bail set.

Plies — who along with Gay was the subject of a default judgment last month in a lawsuit filed by a concert promoter in Montgomery, Alabama, over a concert the rapper failed to show up for — has not been implicated in the trafficking case.

Requests for comment from Plies' label and management had not been granted at press time.