Opinion ID: 998603
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Heading: Traynham

Text: Traynham sold crack to an undercover officer on four occasions. His home was searched after his arrest. Powder cocaine and crack, some of it packaged for sale, as well as two firearms, $2000 in cash and two sets of digital scales were seized from his home. The district court added two offense levels for possession of a firearm under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2D1.1(b)(1) (1997). The enhancement is required if a firearm or other dangerous weapon is possessed during a drug offense and should be made if a firearm is present unless it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected to the 2 offense. See USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1), comment. (n.3). The district court's finding is reviewed for clear error. See United States v. Harris, 128 F.3d 850, 852 (4th Cir. 1997). Possession of a weapon in a place where a drug conspiracy is carried on is sufficient to trigger the enhancement, see United States v. Apple, 962 F.2d 335, 338 (4th Cir. 1992), as is presence of the weapon in proximity to illegal drugs. See Harris, 128 F.3d at 852. Here, we find that the district court did not clearly err in making the enhancement. In 1995, Traynham received a ten-year state sentence which was suspended on condition of good behavior. In 1996, active supervision of his case ceased. The district court gave Traynham two criminal history points under USSG § 4A1.1(d), because he was under a criminal justice sentence when he committed the instant offense. Traynham argues that a sentence of good behavior cannot be equated with a criminal justice sentence. However, his suspended sentence was subject to revocation if the condition of good behavior was not met, and his argument is thus meritless. Application Note 4 to § 4A1.1 specifies that unsupervised probation comes within the definition of a criminal justice sentence. See also United States v. Kimberlin, 18 F.3d 1156, 1160 (4th Cir. 1994) (affirming addition of two points for commission of offense while on unsupervised probation).