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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arturo GARDEA-VENEGAS, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 02-10555.
    D.C. No. CR-01-01544-DCB.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted Nov. 10, 2003.
    
    Decided Nov. 14, 2003.
    Bruce M. Ferg, Deputy Atty. Gen., Julia Soto, Evo A. DeConcini, Tucson, AZ, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Marcy Miranda Janes, Tucson, AZ, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before KOZINSKI, SILVERMAN and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Arturo Gardea-Venegas appeals the 24-month sentence imposed after his guilty-plea conviction for illegal reentry following deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a), and we affirm.

Gardea-Venegas contends that the district court erred by adding a 12-level enhancement to his base offense level pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(B) after finding that his prior state conviction was a drug trafficking offense for which the sentence imposed was less than 13 months. Because judicially noticeable facts in the state court’s sentencing order clearly establish that Gardea-Venegas pled guilty to a drug trafficking offense, see United States v. Corona-Sanchez, 291 F.3d 1201, 1211 (en banc) (noting that “[wjhen the statute of conviction does not facially qualify as [a drug trafficking offense] ... courts may examine the record for ‘documentation or judicially noticeable facts that clearly establish that the conviction is a predicate conviction for enhancement purposes’”) (citation omitted), and because the probationary sentence imposed for that offense included less than 13 months incarceration, see U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(l)(B) & cmt. n. l(A)(iv), we affirm.

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.