UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 19-4196

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

TYUANE KANYATTE FOY,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at 

Greensboro. Thomas D. Schroeder, Chief District Judge. (1:14-cr-00233-TDS-1)

Submitted: September 26, 2019 Decided: September 30, 2019

Before NIEMEYER and KEENAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit 

Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Brian Michael Aus, BRIAN AUS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Durham, North Carolina, for 

Appellant. Robert Albert Jamison Lang, Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF 

THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:

Tyuane Kanyatte Foy appeals from the district court’s judgment revoking his 

supervised release and imposing a 24-month sentence. Foy’s attorney has filed a brief 

pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), stating that there are no meritorious 

issues for appeal but asking the court to review the revocation decision and the 

reasonableness of Foy’s sentence. Although advised of his right to file a pro se 

supplemental brief, Foy has not done so. We affirm.

Foy admitted to violating the terms of his supervised release by testing positive on 

multiple occasions for the use of controlled substances, travelling outside the district 

without permission, and failing to participate in the substance abuse treatment program. 

He did not admit but did not contest the charge that he threatened to shoot into a vehicle. 

Revocation is mandatory when a person on supervised release tests positive for illegal 

controlled substances more than three times over the course of one year, as Foy has done. 

See 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g)(4) (2012). We find no abuse of discretion by the court in revoking 

Foy’s supervised release.

“A district court has broad discretion when imposing a sentence upon revocation of 

supervised release.” United States v. Webb, 738 F.3d 638, 640 (4th Cir. 2013). We “will 

affirm a revocation sentence if it is within the statutory maximum and is not ‘plainly 

unreasonable.’” Id. (quoting United States v. Crudup, 461 F.3d 433, 438 (4th Cir. 2006)). 

“When reviewing whether a revocation sentence is plainly unreasonable, we must first 

determine whether it is unreasonable at all.” United States v. Thompson, 595 F.3d 544, 

546 (4th Cir. 2010). A sentence is substantively reasonable if the district court states a 
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proper basis for concluding the defendant should receive the sentence imposed, up to the 

statutory maximum. Crudup, 461 F.3d at 440. 

The district court properly determined that Foy’s advisory policy statement range 

was 12 to 18 months. In varying upward, the court emphasized that Foy’s violation conduct 

involved the same conduct underlying his original federal sentence, which was possession 

of a firearm by a person previously convicted of a felony offense. The court concluded 

that Foy’s multiple supervised release violations and the nature of these violations 

warranted a 24-month sentence. Although the court referred to the seriousness of the 

violations—13 positive drug tests and the active use of a firearm—the court did not base 

its sentence “predominately on the seriousness of [Foy’s] violation,” but instead 

permissibly referred to the seriousness of the violation conduct in discussing “closely 

related” factors appropriate for consideration under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) (2012). See Webb, 

738 F.3d at 642. We conclude that the district court did not abuse its broad discretion in 

determining that a sentence at the statutory maximum was warranted on these grounds.

In accordance with Anders, we have reviewed the entire record in this case and have 

found no meritorious issues for appeal. We therefore affirm the district court’s judgment. 

This court requires that counsel inform Foy, in writing, of the right to petition the Supreme 

Court of the United States for further review. If Foy requests that a petition be filed, but 

counsel believes that such a petition would be frivolous, then counsel may move in this 

court for leave to withdraw from representation. Counsel’s motion must state that a copy 

thereof was served on Foy. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal 
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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would 

not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED