United States v. Guillermo Alamos

MEMORANDUM **

Guillermo E. Alamos was convicted of illegal reentry, 8 U.S.C. § 1826, and challenges the district court’s application of a 16-level sentencing enhancement based on a prior drug trafficking conviction, as well as the substantive reasonableness of his sentence. Reviewing the district court’s analysis of the prior drug conviction de novo, United States v. Laurico-Yeno, 590 F.3d 818, 820 (9th Cir.2010), and the sub stantive reasonableness of its sentencing decision for abuse of discretion, United States v. Vasquez-Perez, 742 F.3d 896, 901 (9th Cir.2014), we affirm.

1. Alamos first…