### The Honorable Donald J. Stohr, United States District Judge 1 

### for the Eastern District of Missouri. ___________ No. 96-1691

___________ United States of America, * * Appellee, * Appeal from the United States * District Court for the v. * Eastern District of Missouri. * Norvell Daniels, * [UNPUBLISHED] * Appellant. *

___________ Submitted: September 10, 1996 Filed: October 25, 1996

___________ Before BOWMAN, BRIGHT, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.

___________ PER CURIAM.
Norvell Daniels was convicted by a jury of one count of possessio n of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a), (b)(1)(B)(ii)(II) (1994) and one count of possession of phencyclidine (PCP ) with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a), (b)(1)(B)(iv ) (1994). T he District Court sentenced Daniels to two concurrent terms of 1 126 months in prison and four years of supervised release. Daniels appeal s from his convictions, and we affirm.
Daniels c ontends that the evidence presented was insufficient for a rational jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that he knowingly possesse d the narcotics. "We will reverse a conviction

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for insuf ficient evidence . . . only if no construction of the evidenc e exists to support the jury's verdict." United States v. Darden , 70 F.3d 1507, 1517 (8th Cir. 1995), cert. denied , 116 S. Ct. 1449 (1996) (citation omitted). We view the evidence "'in the light most favorable to the guilt y verdic t, giving the government the benefit of all reasonable inference s that might be drawn from the evidence.'" Id. (citation omitted).

At approximately 5:00 p.m. on November 5, 1994, St. Loui s Metrop olitan Police Department detectives, on duty at the Greyhound Bu s Stat ion in St. Louis, boarded a bus originating from Los Angeles an d reques ted permission from the passengers to allow inspection of thei r carry-on luggage by means of a dog sniff. Daniels consented to th e inspection and the do g alerted on Daniels's bag. The detectives returned the bag to Daniels and allowed him to proceed th rough the bus terminal and onto the sidewalk, where the detectives stopped him and where he granted them permission to search his bag. The detectiv es discovered two packages wrapped in gray duct tape, one containing 1160.5 grams of cocaine and the other containing 846.3 grams of PCP. Also found in Daniels's possession were two Greyhound Bus tickets indicating a departure from St. Louis o n October 30, 1994 at 10:30 p.m. and an arrival in Los Angeles on November 1, 1994 at 5:20 p.m. and a return trip leaving Los Angeles on November 3, 1994 at 7:00 p.m. and arriving in St. Louis on November 5, 1994 at 4:3 0 p.m.
We conclu de there is sufficient evidence from which a rational jury could conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Daniels knowingly possessed and intended to distribute the narcotics found in his luggage. Daniels wa s in actual possession of a large quantity of drugs, he appeared nervous whe n confro nted by police detectives, and he had just completed round-tri p travel to Los Angeles , a source city for many of the drugs that flow into St. Louis, with only a two-day stay there. Having reviewed the

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evidence, we cannot say that "no construction of the evidence exists t o support the jury's verdict," Darden , 70 F.3d at 1517.
The convictions are affirmed.
A true copy.

Attest:
CLERK, U. S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.