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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Joseph BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 05-16128.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    July 8, 2009.
    Harriett R. Galvin, Anne R. Schultz, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Dawn Bowen, Daniel L. Rashbaum, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Margaret Y. Foldes, Kathleen M. Williams, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before TJOFLAT, FAY and SILER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.
    
   ON REMAND FROM THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

PER CURIAM:

In United States v. Brown, 526 F.3d 691 (11th Cir.2008), we affirmed appellant’s conviction for using a facility and means of interstate commerce to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). We also affirmed the sentence he received as a career offender. See U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1.

Appellant petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review our judgment. The Court granted the writ, in No. 08-5664, vacated our judgment, and remanded the case to this court “for further consideration in light of Chambers v. United States, 555 U.S. - [,129 S.Ct. 687, 172 L.Ed.2d 484] (2009).” On receipt of the Supreme Court’s mandate, we requested and received supplemental briefing from the parties.

In Chambers, the defendant pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The question before the Supreme Court was whether the crime of “failure to report” to a penal institution, in violation of Ill. Comp. Stat., ch 720, § 5/31~6(a) (West Supp.2008), qualified as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). 555 U.S. at -, 129 S.Ct. at 688. The Court held that it did not. Id. This case at hand does not present that question. Appellant nonetheless contends that the rationale the Supreme Court utilized in reaching its holding should inform our answer to the question of whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) is a “crime of violence” under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1.

Appellant acknowledges that our decision in United States v. Searcy, 418 F.3d 1193, 1198 (11th Cir.2005), has already answered that question— § 2422(b) is a crime of violence under § 4B 1. In reviewing appellant’s sentence, we followed Sear-cy, as we were bound to do, in holding that appellant’s § 2422(b) offense constituted a crime of violence. United States v. Brown, 526 F.3d at 702. Appellant asks that we reconsider Searcy in light of Chambers. We have done so, and find nothing in Searcy’s holding that is inconsistent with Chambers.

The judgment of the district court is, accordingly,

AFFIRMED. 
      
      . Appellant was convicted on a plea of guilty pursuant to a plea agreement.