Och

MEMORANDUM

Jeremiah B. Och was convicted by a jury for the armed robbery of a Sausalito, California, bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (a), (d) and sentenced to 151 months imprisonment. 2 Och appeals his conviction *669 alleging that the district court improperly admitted expert testimony of a handwriting examiner, physical evidence found in Och’s motel room and rental car in Santa Cruz, California, and police testimony relating to the recovery of the Santa Cruz evidence. Och also appeals a two-level sentencing enhancement for reckless endangerment based on his flight from Oregon police. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

I

Citing Federal Rules of Evidence 401, 403, and 404(b), Och argues that the district court improperly introduced irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence at trial. Och objects to (1) testimony by Santa Cruz police detectives Deeg and Martinez that they searched Och’s motel room and rental car pursuant to a warrant obtained at 4:00 a.m. as part of their jobs investigating “major cases” and “person-related crimes”; (2) the detectives’ testimony that they found in the motel room narcotics paraphernalia and evidence of an…