United States v. Timothy Nicholas Peterson, Darryl Ray Hood, Stephen Allen Falk, and Paul Jules Goudeau

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal their convictions for possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) in United States customs waters with the intent to distribute and for conspiracy to destroy goods to prevent seizure, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2 and 21 U.S.C. § 955a(c), and 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 2232. Following denial of their motions to suppress evidence, appellants entered conditional guilty pleas on the possession charge. The parties submitted the conspiracy charge to the district court on a- set of stipulated facts, and the trial court convicted.

In early 1984, the Bangkok office…