United States v. Ronnie Bazel, Jr.

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Ronald Bazel, Jr. appeals from his sentencing, based on a strained statutory interpretation argument. We affirm.

I

Bazel was targeted, along with Julie Car-den, Kenneth “Tight” Sanders, and Tim Benton, by a state undercover operation in McMinn County, Tennessee in late 1993 to early 1994. Bazel ran a small crack cocaine distribution operation in Tennessee. He was not particularly cautious in his dealings with undercover officers of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, as the following excerpt from his Presentence Report indicates:

On September 16, 1998, Agents Robert Burnett and…