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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Tong XIONG, also known as Johnny, Appellant.
    No. 04-3284.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted: June 20, 2005.
    Decided: July 8, 2005.
    Erica H. MacDonald, Christian S. Wilton, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellee.
    Tong Xiong, Sandstone, MN, pro se.
    Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Tong Xiong appeals from his sentence of 97 months for the sexual trafficking of a minor, see 18 U.S.C. § 1591. He argues that the district court violated his sixth amendment rights in sentencing him. We disagree and affirm.

The district court sentenced Mr. Xiong on the basis of facts that were contained in his presentence investigation report and to which Mr. Xiong made no objection. Since Mr. Xiong is therefore taken to have admitted these facts, the district court committed no sixth amendment error in arriving at the guideline range applicable to Mr. Xiong’s case. See United States v. Booker,—U.S.-,---, 125 S.Ct. 738, 755-56, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005); United States v. McCully, 407 F.3d 931, 933 (8th Cir.2005).

While the district court erred by sentencing Mr. Xiong on the assumption that the sentencing guidelines were mandatory, because this issue was not raised in the district court we review for plain error only. See United States v. Pirani, 406 F.3d 543, 548-50 (8th Cir.2005) (en banc). Our examination of the record does not lead us to conclude that there is reasonable probability that the district court would have given Mr. Xiong a shorter sentence had it been aware that the guidelines were advisory. Mr. Xiong therefore has not established that the error affected his substantial rights, one of the prerequisites for plain-error relief. See id. at 550-51.

Affirmed. 
      
      . The Honorable Joan N. Ericksen, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.