UNITED STATES v. DOMINGUEZ

Nos. 78-5112, 78-5114 and 78-5115.

604 F.2d 304 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ernesto DOMINGUEZ, Angel Louis Estevez and Carlos Sarmiento, Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Nollie S. ALEXANDER, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ronnie Wayne NEILL, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Shohat, Miami, Fla. (Bierman, Sonnett, Beiley & Shohat, P. A., Miami, Fla., on brief), Robert White Johnson, Wilmington, N. C. (Crossley & Johnson, Wilmington, N. C., on brief), Dwight F. Drake, Columbia, S. C., for appellants.

Herman E. Gaskins, Jr., Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N. C. (George M. Anderson, U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before BUTZNER and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.


BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

Nollie S. Alexander, Ernesto Dominguez, Angel Estevez, Ronnie Wayne Neill, and Carlos Sarmiento appeal their convictions of conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 960(a)(1), 963, 841(a)(1), and 846. We affirm.

During the spring of 1977, Wade Bailey, the captain of a fishing trawler in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, was approached by two of the defendants,

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