NOT PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

___________ No. 1 3

- 4379

___________ HECTOR HERNANDEZ NEGRON,

Appellant

v. WARDEN OF FCI

- SCHUYLKILL

____________________________________ On Appeal from the United State s District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (D.C. Civil Action No. 3

- 12

- cv - 00957 ) District Judge: Honorable William J. Nealon

____________________________________ Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)

September 5, 2014 Before: CH AGARES, KRAUSE and SLOVITER , Circuit Judges

( F iled : September 8, 2014 )

___________ OPINION

___________ PER CURIAM Pro se appellant Hector Hernandez Negron appeals the District Court’s order denying his petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241

. For the reasons detailed be low, we will affirm the District Court’s judgment.2

In 1994, Negron was convicted in Superior Court in Puerto Rico for a drug crime and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. On February 16, 1996, while imprisoned on the Puerto Rico sentence, Negron was ar rested on federal charges of (1) conspiracy to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin, and (2) distribution of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school. See 21 U.S.C. § § 841(a)(1), 846, 860; 18 U.S.C. § 2. Negron’s appe arance in federal court was obtained by a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum. Negron was convicted in January 1998 in the District of Puerto Rico, and sentenced to 450 months’ imprisonment. On March 19, 1999, Negron was returned to Puerto Rico authori ties. In July 2001, while still in Puerto Rico custody, Negron filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in the District of Puerto Rico. In connection with this motion, o n February 4, 2002 , Negron was transferred to a federal prison , again via habeas corpus ad prosequendum . His § 2255 motion was dismissed on August 7, 2002; he says that he was returned to a Puerto Rico prison on September 26, 2003. Negron was released from his Puerto Rico sentence on November 15, 2004, and transported to federal custody to begin serving his 450

- month sentence. Negron then filed the petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 that is at issue here. He claims that he is entitled to a credit of 60 months and 24 days against his federal sentence. He arrives at that total, first, by com bining the time he was purportedly in federal custody in connection with his federal trial and his § 2255 motion. He also contends that he completed his Puerto Rico sentence on June 15, 2004, but was not transferred to federal3

custody until November 15, 2 004; he argues that he should also be entitled to credit for those five months. The District Court denied Negron’s petition, and Negron filed a timely notice of appeal to this Court. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the Di strict Court’ s denial of Negron’ s § 2241 petition. See Vega v. United States , 493 F.3d 310, 314 (3d Cir. 2007). We agree with the District Court’s disposition of this case. As noted above, Negron asks for credit against his federal sentence for three per iods of time: (1) February 16, 1996, to March 19, 1999; (2) February 4, 2002, to September 26, 2003; and (3) June 15, 2004, to November 15, 2004. As to periods (1) and (2), “ the time spent in federal custody pursuant to a writ ad prosequendum is credited toward his state sentence, not his federal sentence .” Ruggiano v. Reish , 307 F.3d 12 1, 125 n.1 (3d Cir. 2002 ) ; see also Rios v. Wiley , 201 F.3d 257 , 274

- 75 (3d Cir. 2000 ) ( applying “ general rule prohibiting double credit ” to situation where “ the prisoner was in federal control pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum ” ) , superseded on other grounds as stated in United States v. Saintville , 218 F.3d 246, 248

- 4 9 (3d Cir. 2000). Therefore, Negron is not entitled to credit against his federal sente nce for those periods of incarceration. As to period (3)

— June 15, 2004, to November 15, 2004

— Negron contends that his state sentence ended on June 15, 2004, and that he should therefore have begun to serve his federal sentence on that date. However , the evidence in the record is to the contrary: the government has presented an order from Puerto Rico and records from the4

United States Marshals Service listing November 15, 2004, as the date Negron’s state
sentence ended and his federal sentence began . Therefore, Negron’s argument concerning this period is simply not supported by the record. See generally 18 U.S.C. § 3585 (a) (“ A sentence to a term of imprisonment commences on the date the defendant is received in custody awaiting transportation to, o r arrives voluntarily to commence service of sentence at, the official detention facility at which the sentence is to be served. ”). Finally, to the extent that Negron points to stray language in the sentencing transcript that he contends supports his posi tion, we are not persuaded. The District Court stated unequivocally that Negron’s federal sentence would run cons ecutively to his state sentence, and “ district courts have no authority to credit time toward a sentence under § 3585(b)

— that function rests in the sole authority of the BOP .” Blood v. Bledsoe , 648 F.3d 203, 206 ( 3d Cir. 2011). Accordingly, we will affirm the District Court’s judgment

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