United States v. Gerry Burnett

KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge:

Eugene McDuffie, Thaxton Young, Jesse Young, and Gerry Burnett conspired to distribute heroin in Washington, D.C. (Thaxton Young and Jesse Young are cousins. For ease of reading, we will refer to the two Youngs by their first names.) Beginning about May 2011 and continuing through January 2012, McDuffie and Thaxton made frequent trips from Washington, D.C., to New York City and other locations along the 1-95 corridor. They took those trips to obtain significant quantities of heroin from Thaxton’s cousin, Jesse, who lived in New York. McDuffie and Burnett would then…