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Milton LOMELI-CAPETILLO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 10-70944.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Jan. 21, 2015.
    
    Filed Jan. 29, 2015.
    Laura Murray-Tjan, Director, Federal Immigration Appeals Project, Boston, MA, Thalassa G.E. Kingsnorth, Sacramento, CA, for Petitioner.
    OIL, Gladys Marta Steffens Guzman, Esquire, Trial, Ernesto Horacio Molina, Jr., Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: CANBY, GOULD, and N.R.' SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Milton Lomeli-Capetillo, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s removal order. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law. Coronado v. Holder, 759 F.3d 977, 982 (9th Cir.2014). We deny the petition for review.

As Lomeli-Capetillo conceded in his appeal brief before the BIA, an abstract of judgment is a judicially noticeable document that can be used in. a modified categorical analysis. See Kwong v. Holder, 671 F.3d 872, 879-80 (9th Cir.2011). We are not persuaded by Lomeli-Capetillo’s contention that the felony complaint is not a judicially noticeable document and cannot be used in the modified categorical analysis. See Cabantac v. Holder, 736 F.3d 787, 793-94 (9th Cir.2013) (per cu-riam) (Where “the abstract of judgment or minute order specifies that a defendant pleaded guilty to a particular count of the criminal complaint or indictment, we can consider the facts alleged in that count.”).

Under the modified categorical analysis, the abstract of judgment and the felony complaint, taken together, show that Lomeli-Capetillo pled guilty to two counts of violating California Health & Safety Code § 11379(a), transportation of methamphetamine. See id.; Coronado, 759 F.3d at 984-86. Accordingly, the agency properly concluded that the Department of Homeland Security presented clear and convincing evidence that Lomeli-Capetillo is removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(B)©.

We deny the government’s renewed motion for remand.

This dismissal is without prejudice to petitioner’s seeking prosecutorial discretion or deferred action from the Department of Homeland Security. See Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (AADC), 525 U.S. 471, 483-85, 119 S.Ct. 936, 142 L.Ed.2d 940 (1999) (stating that prosecutorial discretion by the agency can be granted at any stage, including after the conclusion of judicial review).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.