United States v. Plunk

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.

We review challenges to convictions and a sentence on various counts which arose out of a coast-to-coast cocaine smuggling conspiracy.

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During the late 1970s and the 1980s, Gerald Frank Plunk was a.relatively small-time cocaine dealer in Anchorage, Alaska. He was supplied throughout the 1980s by Barry Tendler, a pilot from Florida. Tendler, in turn, received his cocaine from a man named Michael. Michael was involved directly with Colombia’s Cali Cartel, and had been entrusted with the responsibility of discovering a new way to smuggle cocaine into the United States.…