United States v. Lopez-Ramirez

EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

Defendant appeals her convictions and sentence for conspiracy with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. We reverse.

DEA agents, working with a confidential informant, arranged for approximately 160 kilograms of cocaine to be imported into the United States and negotiated with two men, Polaco and Turco, for the distribution of the coeaine. After performing a field test to ensure that the substance was cocaine, the agents divided the shipment and packaged about 95 kilograms in one wooden crate and the remaining 65 in another.…