United States v. Oscar Hernandez Rios

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

After a jury trial, Oscar Hernandez Rios was convicted on three counts of possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it and of a related conspiracy count. The district court 1 sentenced Mr. Rios to a term of 151 months of imprisonment. He appeals both his convictions and his sentence, and we affirm.

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As part of an ongoing investigation into the activities of Mr. Rios and Dale Seiko, law enforcement officers from the local sheriffs department received information that Mr. Seiko was distributing methamphetamine from a hotel room. They…