United States v. Bonifacio De La Fuente, Ronald Albert Cardenas, George Sierra, Pat Vargas,augie D. Sierra, and Robert Stewart

GEE, Circuit Judge:

The six defendants-appellants were convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment, to be followed by ten-year special parole terms. A wiretap on the telephone at the residence of defendant Cardenas supplied much of the evidence of defendants’ involvement in a large-scale conspiracy for the distribution of heroin and cocaine. All defendants claim that the wiretap evidence should have been suppressed because of improper authorization and conduct of the electronic surveillance. Defendants…