GORDON C. CARPENTER and TYRONE P. JONES v. UNITED STATES

THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

On October 8, 2013, Tyrone Jones and Gordon Carpenter were arrested in connection with a narcotics buy/bust operation. Mr. Jones filed (and Mr. Carpenter joined) a motion to suppress tangible evidence, which was denied. A jury thereafter convicted each of them of one count of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance (heroin), having heard an undercover officer testify that she gave a $20 bill to Jones, who gave the money to Carpenter, received from Carpenter in return a zi-plock bag of heroin, and gave the ziplock bag to the officer. A few months after the…