U.S. v. VILLARREAL

No. 12-40589.

723 F.3d 609 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. David VILLARREAL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 19, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Richard Berry , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Renata Ann Gowie , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Marjorie A. Meyers , Federal Public Defender, Sarah Beth Landau , Molly Estelle Odom, Esq. , Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Federal Public Defender's Office, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before OWEN and HAYNES, Circuit Judges, and LEMELLE, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Defendant-Appellant David Villarreal appeals his conviction and sentence for conspiring to and possessing with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. We AFFIRM.

Border Patrol agents inspected Villarreal's car at a border checkpoint whereupon they discovered ten bundles of a white powdery substance that they believed to be methamphetamine. Laboratory analysis revealed that the packages contained cocaine and weighed 8.4 kilograms...

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