Brees

MEMORANDUM **

Federal prisoner Steven L. Brees appeals pro se the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition, challenging his guilty plea conviction and sentence for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 (a)(1) and 846; and manufacturing methamphetamine, in violation of § 841(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 . We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253 . Reviewing de novo, see Tripati v. Henman, 843 F.2d 1160, 1162 (9th Cir.1988), we affirm.

Brees may not challenge his conviction or sentence pursuant to a § 2241 petition because he has failed to demonstrate that any remedy pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention. Moore v. Reno, 185 F.3d 1054, 1055 (9th Cir.1999) (per curiam); see Lorentsen v. Hood, 223 F.3d 950, 953 (9th Cir.2000) (recognizing that “ § 2241 is not available under the inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy escape hatch of § 2255 merely because the court of appeals refuses to certify a second or successive motion under the gatekeeping provisions of § 2255”). Accordingly, the district court properly dismissed Brees’s § 2241 petition for lack of…