Young

I. BACKGROUND

During the early evening of August 5, 2007, James John- son, a guest at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco who was staying in Room 13572, reported the theft of a laptop com- puter, iPod, and assorted other items from his room. Dirk Carr, the Hilton’s Assistant Director of Security, was on duty at the time and while reviewing hotel records, found that defendant Michael Young had mistakenly been registered to and given a key to Johnson’s room. Carr subsequently called Young on his hotel room phone in Room 13575, asked Young what room he was staying in (Young responded Room 13575), and then asked Young if he could come up and speak to Young later. Young agreed to speak to Carr.

Later that evening, at around 8:30 p.m., Carr went up with Security Supervisor Roger Hicks to both of the rooms in ques- tion to look for Johnson’s missing property and to speak to Young. Young was not in his room at that time, so Carr and Hicks unlocked Young’s room using a master key and found a backpack. Upon opening the backpack, they found check- books belonging to other people, as well as a firearm in the front pocket. They also found an empty key package for John- UNITED STATES v. YOUNG…