Mausali

I. Background

In May 2006, Special Agent John Carr of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, asked a confidential infor- 724 UNITED STATES v. MAUSALI mant to let him know if the informant came across any crews interested in committing a home invasion robbery. Carr hoped to infiltrate an existing robbery crew by portraying himself as a drug courier who intended to pay off thousands of dollars in gambling debts by fencing drugs stolen from his employ- er’s stash house. Within a few weeks, the informant put Carr in touch with Diego Osuna-Sanchez, who told Carr that he had an armed and experienced robbery crew interested in working with him. The crew consisted of Osuna-Sanchez, Juan Okamoto, Mokey Mose, and the defendant, Uiese Maus- ali.

Over the course of the next month, Carr met several times with Osuna-Sanchez, Okamoto, Mose, and Defendant to work out the details of the robbery; each member of the crew par- ticipated in the planning. On the morning of June 23, 2006, Okamoto, Mose, and Defendant met up with Carr at a ware- house parking lot to hash out the final details of the job on their way to the stash house. Before Okamoto, Mose, and Defendant could…