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UNITED STATES of America Plaintiff-Appellee v. Aaron BYRD Defendant-Appellant
    No. 16-3731
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted: May 17, 2017
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Adam Caine, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Brent B. Venneman, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Kansas City, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee
    
      Aaron Byrd, Pro Se
    Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Aaron Byrd directly appeals the within-Sentencing Guidelines sentence imposed by the district court after he pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy offense, pursuant to a written plea agreement that contained a waiver of the right to appeal his conviction and sentence except on enumerated grounds. Byrd’s counsel has moved to withdraw, and in a brief filed under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), counsel challenges the sentence as substantively unreasonable and contests the application of certain Guidelines enhancements.

We will enforce the appeal waiver in this case, because our review of the record demonstrates that Byrd entered into the plea agreement and the appeal waiver knowingly and voluntarily; the arguments presented fall within the scope of the appeal waiver; and no miscarriage of justice would result from enforcing the waiver. See United States v. Andis, 333 F.3d 886, 889-92 (8th Cir. 2003) (en banc). Having independently reviewed the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 109 S.Ct. 346, 102 L.Ed.2d 300 (1988), we find no nonfriv-olous issues for appeal falling outside the scope of the appeal waiver.

Accordingly, we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw, and we dismiss this appeal. 
      
      . The Honorable Gary A. Fenner, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.