United States v. Homero Glen-Archila, Dudley Astor May-Mitchell

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Dudley May-Mitchell and Homero GlenArchila, crew members of a ship on which the Coast Guard found a cargo of marijuana during a stop and search in international waters off the Florida coast, appeal their convictions for violations of this country’s drug laws. We affirm.

I. FACTS

We recite these facts in the light most favorable to the government. See Glasser v. United States, 315 U.S. 60, 80, 62 S.Ct. 457, 469, 86 L.Ed. 680 (1942).

In 1979 a Coast Guard cutter came upon the British ship CAYMAN MAN twenty miles from St. Augustine. Boatswain’s Mate James Caldwell hailed the…