Thomas

MEMORANDUM **

Raymond Thomas appeals the district court’s denial of his suppression motion and challenges the reasonableness of his sentence. We affirm.

Police seized from the mail a package containing more than a kilogram of cocaine and, after inserting an alerting device, made a controlled delivery of the package. Within minutes of making the delivery, law enforcement officers watched Mr. Thomas exit the delivery location with a similar-looking package. Officers kept Thomas under surveillance and, after hearing the alerting device indicate that the package had been opened, arrested Thomas in the arctic entrance to his house. They searched him, conducted a protective sweep of his house, and thereafter an officer obtained a warrant to search Thomas’s house for the suspect package and other indicia of drug dealing. After the district court denied Thomas’s motion to suppress the evidence seized during that search, Thomas conditionally pleaded guilty to possession of more than 500 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a), (b)(1)(B).

Based on the amount of cocaine involved and consideration of Thomas’s two prior drug convictions, the…