Barrera-Medina
United States v. Barrera-Medina
Opinion
Lead Opinion
*789 MEMORANDUM **
Defendants-Appellants Elias Miguel Barrera-Medina, Miguel HernandezMunguia, Martin Perez-Estrada, Lino Hernandez, Timoteo Valle, Jr., and Gabriel Ortiz-Villalobos appeal their convictions and sentences for various drug and firearm offenses relating primarily to a conspiracy to purchase approximately one million pseudoephedrine pills to manufacture methamphetamine. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3742 (a) and 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and affirm in part and grant a limited remand in part. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history, we do not repeat it here except to the extent necessary for our disposition.
I.
Hernandez-Munguia, Perez-Estrada, Timoteo Valle, Jr., and Ortiz-Villalobos (the “Intrepid Defendants”) argue that the district court erred in finding that there was probable cause to effect their warrant-less arrest and, thus, erred in denying their motion to suppress the evidence seized during the search of the Dodge Intrepid in which they were driving at the time of their arrest. We review de novo the district court’s legal conclusion that probable cause existed; we review the underlying facts as found by the…