United States v. Vasquez

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

This is a direct criminal appeal by two co-defendants, Francisco Vasquez and Juan Echeverría, challenging their convictions and sentences for conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) and § 846. We affirm.

I

Perez-Duarte, Echeverría, and Vasquez were arrested in Plano, Texas, on March 31, 2011, shortly after Perez-Duarte attempted to sell five kilograms of methamphetamine to a police informant named Mendoza at a pre-arranged meeting in a parking lot. Perez-Duarte had driven Vasquez’s red truck to the meeting with…