# United States Court **of Appeals**  **f or the Fifth Circuit** 

No. 20

- 50993 Summary Calendar

**United States of America,**
Plaintiff

— Appellee **,**

versus
**Adrian Hunt,**
Defendant

— Appellant

**.**

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas USDC No. 7:20

- CR

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Before **Owen,** Chief Judge , and **Southwick** and **Wilson,** Circuit Judges

. **P er Curiam**  **:** *
Adrian Hunt appeals the 262

- month , within

- guidelines sentence of imprisonment imposed following his guilty

- plea conviction of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. He argues that the district court erred in adjusting his

* Pursuant to **5th Cir cuit**  **R ule**  47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in **5th Cir cuit**  **R ule**  47.5.4. United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit 

### FILED December 23, 2021 Lyle W. Cayce Clerk Case: 20-50993 Document: 00516143773 Page: 1 Date Filed: 12/23/2021No. 20

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2 offense level pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) , which provides for a two

level enhancement “[i]f a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) was possessed[.]” § 2D1.1(b)(1). This court applies an abuse

- of

- discretion standard to pres erved claims of sentencing error, under which it reviews a district court’s factual findings for clear error. United States v. Odom , 694 F.3d 544, 546 (5th Cir. 2012). The Government is required to prove the applicability of § 2D1.1(b)(1) by a prepondera nce of the evidence. See United States v. Cisneros

- Gutierrez , 517 F.3d 751, 764 (5th Cir. 2008). One way i t can do so is to demonstrat e that another individual involved in the commission of an offense possessed a weapon and that the defendant could have reasonably foreseen that possession. I d. at 764

- 65. Should the Government succeed in this , “the burden shifts to the defendant to show that it was clearly improbable that the
weapon was connec ted with the offense.” United States v. Ruiz , 621 F.3d 390, 396 (5th Cir. 2010 )

. “A factual finding is not clearly erroneous if it is plausible, considering the record as a whole.” Id.

T he district court applied § 2D1.1(b)(1) here because Angelina Leat herwood, one of Hunt’s coconspirators, was found to possess a pistol and a large amount of methamphetamine when stopped after leaving a residence used for drug trafficking. H unt argues that Leatherwood’s possession of a gun was not reasonably foreseeable to him. A ssuming this argument is preserved, it fails nonetheless because Hunt has not show n that the district court’s foreseeability finding was clearly erroneous. “Ordinarily,

one co

- conspirator’s use of a firearm will be foreseeable because firearms a re ‘tools of the trade’ in drug conspiracies.” United States v. Mergerson , 4 F.3d 337, 350 (5th Cir. 1993). Hunt was with Leatherwood before her arrest , and that same day the two had reportedly returned from one of Leatherwood’s weekly trips to renew her supply of methamphetamine. The district court’s foreseeability finding is plausible on the record before us, and Hunt ’s Case: 20-50993 Document: 00516143773 Page: 2 Date Filed: 12/23/2021No. 20

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3 challenge is therefore unavailing. See Cisneros

- Gutierrez , 517 F.3d at 7 64

- 65 ; Ruiz , 621 F.3d at 396

. **AFFIRMED**

. Case: 20-50993 Document: 00516143773 Page: 3 Date Filed: 12/23/2021