United States v. Josue Vargas

Easterbrook, Circuit Judge.

*419 Convicted of two cocaine offenses, 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1), Josue Vargas has been sentenced to 72 months' imprisonment. His principal appellate argument is that the district judge should have suppressed packages of that drug seized from his truck.

Vargas rented a parking place for his truck in a lot that lacked assigned spaces. Agents in Ohio arrested Luis Hueter as he transported three kilograms of cocaine that, Hueter asserted, he had purchased from Vargas the day before at his parked truck. Hueter described Vargas, the truck, and the lot. They immediately called…