United States v. William Smith (89-3817) Chester Sargent (89-3831) Wayne McCarvey (89-3833) and Fred Sams (89-3835)

Defendants appeal their sentences imposed pursuant to guilty pleas on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. For the following reasons, we affirm.

I

In May 1988, the Mansfield (Ohio) Police Department received a confidential report that defendant-appellant Fred Sams had brought defendant-appellant Chester Sargent and defendant-appellant Wayne McCarvey from Detroit, Michigan to Mansfield to establish a distribution ring for cocaine and crack. Between August 1988 and February 1989, Sams, Sargent, McCar-vey, and Anthony Hines from Detroit (who was also a defendant in this case) made sales of…