NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff

- Appellant,

v. CHANDAN MANANSINGH,

Defendant

- Appellee. No. 17

- 10229
D.C. No. 2:16

- cr - 00140

- RFB

- 1

MEMORANDUM *

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Richard F. Boulware, II, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted April 12, 2018 ** San Francisco, California Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judge, and OLGUIN, ** * District Judge.

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36

- 3.

** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

*** The Honorable Fernando M . Olguin, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation. 

# FILED

MAY 14 2018 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLER K U.S. COURT OF APPEAL S2

The government appeals the district court’s grant of Chandan Manansingh ’s motion to suppress. We affirm. Having reviewed the record, we conclude that the district court’s findings with respect to potential violations of Manansingh ’s supervised release conditions are supported by the hearing testimony and are permissible inferences drawn from that testimony

. Specifically, t he district court’s findings regarding Manansingh ’s use of his girlfriend’s BMW, financial status , alternate sources of income, ability to pay a
court

- imposed fine, and living situation are not clearly erroneous. See United States v. Burgos

- Ortega , 777 F.3d 1047, 1056 (9th Cir

. 2015) (A factual “finding is clearly erroneous if it is illogical, implausible, or wi thout support in the record .” (quoting United States v. Graf

, 610 F.3d 1148, 1157 (9th Cir. 2010)) )

. The district court also did not err in finding that the Probation Department (“Probation”) lacked reasonable suspicion to conduct a search of Manansingh ’ s residence

. See United States v. Hernandez

- Alvarado , 891 F.2d 1414, 1416 (9th Cir. 1989) . T he factors Probation relied on

– Manansingh ’s operation of the BMW, his residence in a luxury apartment building, his finances and alleged failure to submit reports or otherwise disclo se information to P robation , as well as his possession of vials of an unknown substance seven months prior to the search and positive steroid
tests that were not linked to the relevant time period

– merit little or no weight indi vidually, and added together, are insufficient to justify the search. See United3

States v. Lopez

- Soto , 205 F.3d 1101, 1105 (9th Cir. 2000) (“Reasonable suspicion is formed by ‘ specific , articulable facts which, together with objective and reasonable infer ences, form the basis for suspecting that the particular person

. . . is engaged in criminal activity. ’” (quoting United States v. Michael R. , 90 F.3d 340, 346 (9th Cir. 1996)))

. As the evidentiary hearing testimony showed, P robation ’s asserted grounds fo r reasonable suspicion were undermined by repeated confirmations that Manansingh was being truthful and had not demonstrably viol ated a condition of supervision. See United States v. Valdes

- Vega , 738 F.3d 1074, 1078 (9th Cir. 2013) (en banc) (Although reasonable suspicion standard “is not a particularly high threshold to reach . . . ‘ a mere hunch is insufficient . . . .’” (quoting United States v.
Arvizu , 534 U.S. 266, 274 (2002))) ; United States v

. Sigmond

- Ballesteros , 285 F.3d 1117, 1121 (9 th Cir. 2002) (requiring a “par ticularized and objective basis” for suspecting legal wrongdoing ).
AFFIRMED.