USA v. Edwin Joel Pratts, No. 15-10813 (11th Cir. 2015)
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Case: 15-10813 Date Filed: 07/27/2015 Page: 1 of 2 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 15-10813 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:14-cr-20697-JLK-2 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus EDWIN JOEL PRATTS, a.k.a. Fatboy, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ________________________ (July 27, 2015) Before WILLIAM PRYOR, MARTIN and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Edwin Joel Pratts appeals his sentence of 60 months of imprisonment Case: 15-10813 Date Filed: 07/27/2015 Page: 2 of 2 following his plea of guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Pratts challenges the four-level increase in his offense level for possessing or transferring a firearm with knowledge that it would be shipped outside the United States. United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(b)(6)(A) (Nov. 2014). We affirm. The district court did not clearly err by enhancing Pratts’s sentence. A defendant is subject to a four-level increase in his offense level if he “possessed or transferred [the] firearm . . . with knowledge, intent, or reason to believe that it would be transported out of the United States.” Id. A confidential informant arranged to purchase a firearm from Pratts and recorded their transaction. That recording reflects that, while the informant inspected the firearm, he twice stated that he purchased firearms to “send them to Mexico,” and that Pratts replied, “Oh ok,” and then wrapped up the firearm, carried it to the informant’s vehicle, and accepted payment. Pratts knew or had reason to believe that the firearm would be exported when he transferred it to the informant. See United States v. Asante, 782 F.3d 639, 646 n.5 (11th Cir. 2015). We AFFIRM Pratts’s sentence. 2
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