United States v. Omar Coria

ORDER

Omar Coria appeals the denial of a “safety-valve” reduction of his sentence for conspiring to sell drugs. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f). The district court found that he was ineligible for the reduction because he lied to investigators about when he joined the conspiracy. The court imposed the statutory minimum of 120 months in prison, and we affirm that sentence.

In early 2012 Coria accepted his brother’s invitation to join his cocaine- and heroin-trafficking business. By this time, however, law-enforcement officers already were investigating his brother’s drug operation and intercepting his…