Toledo then went to work for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as an air conditioning systems engineer for the Saturn V and Apollo missions.}
Toledo has said "I had finished the career in engineering but there are a lot of lawyers in my family, and I believed that [by joining the FBI] I could indirectly enter the field of law."
[citation needed] The riots were caused by a group of Cuban inmates who refused to be repatriated to Cuba after the Mariel boatlift.
[1] After his time with the FBI, Toledo became supervisor of the Violent Crimes division for the Policia de Puerto Rico.
Some of Toledo's initiatives against drugs and violence involved the collaboration with the Puerto Rico National Guard and the occupation of public housing projects (or "caseríos").
In 2000, elected Governor Sila María Calderón appointed Miguel Pereira as superintendent of the Puerto Rico Police.
[1] After his second stint as superintendent, Toledo returned to private life, but was regularly interviewed for his opinion on security matters of the island.
On December 23, 2012, Toledo was taken to Hospital Auxilio Mutuo in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, where he died of a heart attack.
[5] Toledo's body was exposed on Ehret Funerary in Río Piedras starting December 26, and was buried two days later at Cementerio Borinquen Memorial in Caguas, Puerto Rico.