Montes

*289 MEMORANDUM *

Erick Rolando Montes appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence and statements obtained diming a stop and frisk conducted by Los Angeles Police Department Officer Eric Hurd. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Considering the totality of the circumstances, the district court correctly concluded that the investigatory stop was proper because Officer Hurd had a reasonable suspicion that Montes was engaged in criminal activity. See Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). The district court also correctly determined that the frisk was justified to protect the officers’ personal safety. See id. at 24 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 . When Officer Hurd stopped and frisked Montes that evening, he knew that (1) minutes before the stop, officers had observed Montes, a known Toonerville gang member, driving a van in which a fellow gang member, who was wanted on a no-bail arrest warrant for murder and a parole violation, was a passenger; (2) Montes was walking along the driveway of a known gang hang-out; (3) Toonerville gang members had previously ambushed police officers in the same location; (4) the…