Shipley

MEMORANDUM ***

1. The police did not violate 18 U.S.C. § 3109 when they entered Shipley’s residence with a warrant' but without first knocking and announcing. Police learned from three confidential informants and their own investigation that Shipley was illegally manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine, that he was heavily armed and prone to violence as a prospective member of the Hell’s Angels gang, and that he had a long criminal history, which included convictions for battery and drug offenses. This combination of factors- — -a far cry from the sort of “generalizations and stereotypes” disapproved in our cases, see, e.g., United States v. Granville, 222 F.3d 1214, 1219 (9th Cir.2000)— is sufficient to constitute exigent circumstances justifying a no-knock entry. We have excused the police from knocking and announcing under similar circumstances. See, e.g., United States v. Hudson, 100 *708 F.3d 1409, 1417 (9th Cir.1996) (holding that the no-knock but warranted entry was justified when agents knew that the defendant sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant, had a prior drug offense conviction, and stored firearms and easily destroyable drug paraphernalia on the…