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                                           No. 08-2532

                          UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                               FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                                )                         FILED
                                                         )                     May 27, 2010
       Plaintiff-Appellee,                               )                LEONARD GREEN, Clerk
                                                         )
v.                                                       )
                                                         )   On Appeal from the United States
RAHIB ISMAEL-YASIR AL-CHOLAN,                            )   District Court for the Eastern
                                                         )   District of Michigan
       Defendant-Appellant.                              )
                                                         )
                                                         )

Before: GUY, BOGGS, and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.

       BOGGS, Circuit Judge. Defendant Rahib Ismael-Yasir Al-Cholan was caught in a sting

operation attempting to purchase the sexual services of a twelve-year-old girl. Al-Cholan was

subsequently convicted of traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit

sexual conduct, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b). He makes three arguments on appeal: (1) that

he was unlawfully entrapped; (2) that his custodial statements to police should have been suppressed

because he did not understand the arresting officers’ English-language Miranda warning; and (3) that

the district court improperly imposed a sentence enhancement for a pattern of activity involving

prohibited sexual conduct. All three arguments lack merit, and we therefore affirm.

                                        BACKGROUND

       Al-Cholan is an Iraqi native and a former tank mechanic in the Iraqi army under Saddam

Hussein. He immigrated to the United States in 1995 after deserting the army and spending a brief
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period in Saudi Arabia. For the next twelve years, he lived in Dearborn, Michigan, where he

married, fathered two children, and worked as a self-employed auto mechanic. In 2002, he

incorporated his own business, Cholan, Inc. The following year, he became a United States citizen.

By all outward appearances, Al-Cholan was an upstanding individual living the American dream.

       But the truth was substantially darker. In October 2007, when Al-Cholan was 45 years old,

he befriended Michael Hanna, a 24-year-old Lebanese immigrant, and, according to Hanna, admitted

to him that he harbored a predilection for sex with underage girls and boys. As Hanna testified,

Al-Cholan claimed that “Lebanese people . . . know how to get . . . young children” for sex and

asked him several times to procure a child.1 Concerned, Hanna related this request to his guardian,

who passed it on to the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement

division (“ICE”). ICE agents then set up a sting operation using Hanna as a cooperator.

       On November 7, 2007, while agents listened in, Hanna told Al-Cholan that he knew of a

twelve-year-old girl being prostituted by her uncle in Toledo, Ohio for $100 per session. According

to Hanna, Al-Cholan responded that “he [could not] go to Toledo because he [was] afraid that the

police would catch him on the road if he ha[d] a minor” and asked “if [the girl] could come over

here.” Hanna said that she could not. Al-Cholan asked if any other children were available; Hanna

said no. With no persuasion or pressure from Hanna, Al-Cholan then decided to accept the offer.

       Since Al-Cholan’s truck was out of commission, he asked Hanna to drive him to Toledo.

En route, Al-Cholan boasted to Hanna that he had had over 100 prior sexual experiences with

       1
         While Hanna testified in English at Al-Cholan’s trial, all of his conversations with
Al-Cholan were in their native Arabic.

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minors, both in Iraq and in Michigan. At some point, ICE agents realized that the recording device

Hanna was wearing had malfunctioned, and directed Hanna via cellular telephone to stop at a gas

station. There, the agents met Hanna and fixed the device as Al-Cholan waited obliviously in the

car. While at the station, Al-Cholan asked Hanna to purchase Vaseline and condoms, and Hanna

did so. After the two men resumed driving, Al-Cholan continued to detail his past sexual

molestation of children and his plans to “spend the night” with the twelve-year-old girl.

       At approximately 10:00 p.m., Al-Cholan and Hanna arrived at a motel in Toledo, where an

ICE agent was posing as the girl’s uncle. Al-Cholan paid the agent and briefly conversed with him

in English, then attempted to enter the room to which the agent had directed him. Shortly thereafter,

he was arrested.

       While still on the scene, an agent read Al-Cholan his Miranda rights in English, and

Al-Cholan signed an English-language Miranda waiver form. ICE agents then interviewed

Al-Cholan for about ten minutes before transporting him to a nearby police station for further

questioning. During this second stretch of questioning, Al-Cholan told several inconsistent stories

before admitting that he had come to Toledo to rendezvous with a twelve-year-old girl. After he

acknowledged this – about five minutes into the station-house interview – Al-Cholan began “act[ing]

like he didn’t speak English” and, for the first time, requested an interpreter. The agents immediately

terminated the interview.

       Al-Cholan was subsequently indicted on one count of traveling in interstate commerce for

the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b). He moved to

dismiss the indictment on the ground of entrapment, and the district court denied his motion. He

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also moved to suppress his custodial statements, arguing that his Miranda waiver was invalid

because of his allegedly limited understanding of English. After an evidentiary hearing, this motion,

too, was denied.

       Following a jury trial in July 2008, Al-Cholan was found guilty. He did not request a jury

instruction on entrapment, and none was given. In August 2008, Al-Cholan moved for “a new trial

or outright dismissal” on entrapment grounds, among others. The district court denied the motion.

In November 2008, the district court sentenced him to 112 months’ imprisonment; the sentence

included a five-level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.5(b) for having demonstrated a pattern of

activity involving prohibited sexual conduct. This timely appeal followed.

                                            ANALYSIS

A. Entrapment and Related Defenses

       Using (and at times conflating) three related but distinct legal theories, Al-Cholan attacks the

fundamental fairness of the sting operation that led to his arrest. These three theories are: (1) the

traditional entrapment defense recognized by the Supreme Court in Sorrells v. United States, 287

U.S. 435 (1932), and its progeny; (2) the due-process-based “outrageous government conduct”

defense, which the Court hinted at in United States v. Russell, 411 U.S. 423 (1973), but has never

officially recognized; and (3) the “manufactured jurisdiction” defense pioneered in United States v.

Archer, 486 F. 2d 670 (2d Cir. 1973) (Friendly, J.), but scarcely applied since.

       This constellation of related claims is technically governed by two different standards of

review. “Outrageous government conduct” was not specifically argued below, so we review this

claim only for plain error. See United States v. Dedman, 527 F.3d 577, 591 (6th Cir. 2008). Nor did

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Al-Cholan request an entrapment jury instruction below, so to the extent that he challenges the

district court’s failure to issue such an instruction sua sponte, we review only for plain error. See

United States v. Presley, 349 F. App’x 22, 29 (6th Cir. 2009). Meanwhile, we review de novo the

district court’s denial of Al-Cholan’s pre-trial and post-trial motions based on the purely legal issues

of entrapment as a matter of law and manufactured jurisdiction. See United States v. Utesch, 596

F.3d 302, 306 (6th Cir. 2010); United States v. Budd, 496 F.3d 517, 530 (6th Cir. 2007).

1. Traditional Entrapment

        In United States v. Sorrells, the Court first recognized an entrapment defense under federal

criminal law – not as a constitutional imperative, but as a matter of statutory interpretation –

reasoning that it “was [not] the intention of the Congress in enacting [the Prohibition Act]” that the

statute be used to prosecute otherwise innocent persons “lure[d]” into violating it by

law-enforcement agents. 287 U.S. at 448. In subsequent decisions, the Court has recognized that

the Sorrells entrapment defense is generally available under other provisions of the federal criminal

code, while noting that the defense is “not of a constitutional dimension.” Russell, 411 U.S. at 433;

see also Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (1992); Mathews v. United States, 485 U.S. 58

(1988); Sherman v. United States, 356 U.S. 369 (1958).

        As we have construed the entrapment defense, “[t]he central inquiry . . . is whether law

enforcement officials implanted a criminal design in the mind of an otherwise law-abiding citizen

or whether the government merely provided an opportunity to commit a crime to one who was

already predisposed to do so.” United States v. Pennell, 737 F.2d 521, 534 (6th Cir. 1984). Thus,

“[a] valid entrapment defense requires proof of two elements: (1) government inducement of the

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crime, and (2) lack of predisposition on the part of the defendant to engage in the criminal activity.”

United States v. Khalil, 279 F.3d 358, 364 (6th Cir. 2002). In determining whether a defendant was

predisposed to commit the offense, the following factors are relevant:

       [t]he character or reputation of the defendant, including any prior criminal record;
       whether the suggestion of the criminal activity was initially made by the
       Government; whether the defendant was engaged in criminal activity for profit;
       whether the defendant evidenced reluctance to commit the offense, overcome only
       by repeated Government inducements or persuasion; and the nature of the
       inducement or persuasion supplied by the Government.

United States v. Moore, 916 F.2d 1131, 1137 (6th Cir. 1990) (quoting United States v. McLernon,

746 F.2d 1098, 1112 (6th Cir. 1984)).

       Setting aside the question of inducement, Al-Cholan’s entrapment defense fails because the

evidence incontrovertibly establishes that he was predisposed to commit the offense. Al-Cholan

approached Hanna unprompted and asked him several times to procure a child. According to

Hanna’s testimony and Al-Cholan’s own recorded statements, Al-Cholan had molested numerous

children in the past. And while Al-Cholan momentarily hesitated about driving to Toledo, he

evidenced no reluctance about having sex with the proffered child, and overcame any initial

hesitation about the interstate travel with no “Government inducements or persuasion” whatsoever.

       In the face of this evidence, Al-Cholan argues that, while he may have been predisposed to

molest children, he was not “predisposed to travel[] across state lines” in order to do so, since all

of the alleged prior instances of molestation occurred within the state of Michigan or overseas, the

out-of-state situs for the rendezvous was suggested by the government, and Al-Cholan initially

demurred at the proposed location. In other words, he argues that “predisposition” cannot be shown

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under Sorrells and its progeny without specific evidence of inclination to commit every element of

the precise crime of conviction, including any federal jurisdictional predicate.

        We decline to endorse this narrow and hyper-technical view of predisposition. As the Second

Circuit has explained, “[p]redisposition evidence . . . [must be based on] conduct . . . ‘near enough

in kind to support an inference that [the defendant’s] purpose included offenses of the sort charged,’

although it is not necessary that the past conduct be precisely the same as that for which the

defendant is being prosecuted.” United States v. Brand, 467 F.3d 179, 200 (2d Cir. 2006) (quoting

United States v. Harvey, 991 F.2d 981, 994 (2d Cir. 1993) (in turn quoting United States v. Sherman,

200 F.2d 880, 882-83 (2d Cir. 1952) (Hand, J.))). In fact, Brand involved the very offense at issue

here – traveling across state lines for the purpose of engaging in illegal sexual activity with a minor.

Id. at 182. There, the Second Circuit, applying the aforementioned standard, found that the

defendant’s mere possession of images of child pornography was conduct “near enough in kind to

support” a predisposition to travel across state lines to have sex with children. Id. at 200 (internal

quotation marks omitted). Here, of course, the predisposition evidence is still closer in fit to the

crime of conviction – more than close enough, we hold, to defeat Al-Cholan’s entrapment defense.

See also United States v. Nelson, 847 F.2d 285, 287 (6th Cir. 1988) (holding that defendant’s

possession of several books describing explicit underage sex indicated a “predisposition to purchase

pedophilic materials” via the mails).

        What is more, even under Al-Cholan’s strained interpretation of “predisposition,” he must

lose. While Al-Cholan briefly hesitated to drive to Toledo, he explicitly voiced his preference that

the girl be brought to Michigan instead; this preferred course of conduct was itself a violation of the

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same statute Al-Cholan was ultimately convicted of violating. See 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) (stating that

it is a federal offense to “knowingly transport[ a minor] in interstate or foreign commerce . . . with

intent that the individual engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can

be charged with a criminal offense”); 18 U.S.C. § 2423(e) (“conspir[acy] to violate subsection (a)

. . . shall be punishable in the same manner as a completed violation”).

          Accordingly, under either de novo or plain-error review, Al-Cholan’s entrapment defense

fails.2

2. Outrageous Government Conduct

          In addition to the Sorrells theory of entrapment, Al-Cholan argues that the government’s

conduct was “so outrageous that due process considerations would bar a conviction” whether or not

he was predisposed to commit the crime. The Supreme Court has never applied this constitutional

variant of entrapment, but has suggested in dictum that it may be available in extreme situations

where “[t]he law enforcement conduct . . . [is] shocking to the universal sense of justice. . . .”

Russell, 411 U.S. at 431-32 (citing Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952)); but see Hampton v.

United States, 425 U.S. 484, 489-90 (1976) (Rehnquist, J., writing for a three-Justice plurality)

(stating that “[t]he remedy of the criminal defendant with respect to the acts of Government agents,

          2
           Al-Cholan’s unsupported assertion that he “did not know that . . . Toledo was not in
Michigan” is of absolutely no consequence to the predisposition inquiry, whatever the level of
specificity required; the violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423 does not necessitate knowledge that the
predicate act of travel involves crossing a state boundary, see United States v. Feola, 420 U.S. 671,
676-77 (1975); rather, the interstate element is merely “jurisdictional,” United States v. Chambers,
441 F.3d 438, 450 (6th Cir. 2006).

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which, far from being resisted, are encouraged by him, lies solely in the [traditional] defense of

entrapment,” not in due-process principles).

        In this circuit, we have never applied the “outrageous government conduct” defense, and have

stated that “there are . . . strong reasons for concluding that such a defense simply does not

exist . . . .” United States v. Tucker, 28 F.3d 1420, 1427 (6th Cir. 1994). Even if this defense is still

available in theory, “in practice, courts have rejected its application with almost monotonous

regularity.” United States v. Santana, 6 F.3d 1, 4 (1st Cir. 1993). In light of the “moribund” state

of this defense, ibid., the district court did not commit plain error in failing to raise it sua sponte.

3. Manufactured Jurisdiction

        Al-Cholan also invokes the doctrine of “manufactured jurisdiction,” which was recognized

by the Second Circuit in United States v. Archer. In that case, the defendants were being prosecuted

under the Travel Act for a corrupt scheme that occurred entirely within the state of New York, other

than the fact that, on one occasion, an undercover agent posing as a participant in the scheme went

to New Jersey “for the sole purpose of [engaging one of the defendants] in an interstate telephone

call” to satisfy the Travel Act’s jurisdictional predicate. 486 F.2d at 674.

        Writing for the Second Circuit, Judge Friendly concluded that the Sorrells entrapment

defense was unavailable because the defendants were predisposed to commit the offense. Id. at 682.

He briefly considered the due-process-based defense adverted to in Russell, but found its

applicability inconclusive. Id. at 676. In the end, he concluded that reversal was required on a third

ground:

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        Whatever Congress may have meant by [“uses any facility in interstate or foreign
        commerce”], it certainly did not intend to include a telephone call manufactured by
        the Government for the precise purpose of transforming a local bribery offense into
        a federal crime. . . . [W]hen Congress [passed the Travel Act] . . . , it did not mean
        to include cases where the federal officers themselves supplied the interstate element
        and acted to ensure that an interstate element would be present.

Id. at 681-82.

        However, Archer’s rule against “manufacturing jurisdiction” can fairly be described as an

aberration. Even the Second Circuit itself has effectively limited Archer to its facts. See United

States v. Burdette, 86 F. App’x 121, 127 (6th Cir. 2004) (“[C]ourts that have construed Archer have

taken pains to limit its applicability and to explain that ‘manufactured jurisdiction’ as an independent

doctrine is a dubious concept.” (quoting United States v. Wallace, 85 F.3d 1063, 1065-66 (2d Cir.

1996))); see also United States v. Podolsky, 798 F.2d 177, 181 (7th Cir. 1986) (Posner, J.) (“The

course of decisions casts doubt . . . on the vitality of the independent principle announced [in Archer]

that forbids the ‘manufacture’ of federal jurisdiction . . . .”).

        The case law distinguishing Archer – and, with vanishingly few exceptions, “Archer has been

cited only to be distinguished,” Podolsky, 798 F.2d at 180 – has made clear that

        the “manufactured jurisdiction” concept is properly understood not as an independent
        defense, but as a subset of three possible defense theories: (i) the defendant was
        entrapped into committing a federal crime, since he was not predisposed to commit
        the crime in the way necessary for the crime to qualify as a federal offense; (ii) the
        defendant’s due process rights were violated because the government’s actions in
        inducing the defendant to commit the federal crime were outrageous; or (iii) an
        element of the federal statute has not been proved, so federal courts have no
        jurisdiction over the crime.

Wallace, 85 F.3d at 1065-66 (internal citations omitted).

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       As we have already held, the first two of these possibilities have no application in the instant

case. And with respect to the third (jurisdictional) possibility, as the Second Circuit has observed,

“[c]ourts have refused to follow Archer when there is any link between the federal [jurisdictional]

element and a voluntary, affirmative act of the defendant,” as there clearly was here – even where

the government “introduce[d the] federal element into a[n otherwise] non-federal crime . . . .” Id.

at 1066. We have employed this same reasoning in rejecting a claim of manufactured jurisdiction.

See United States v. Hudson, No. 93-2601, 1995 WL 234680, at *3 (6th Cir. 1995) (“Although [the

government] agent suggested that opening a Canadian account would be an effective way to launder

money, defendant readily agreed to the scheme. . . . [T]he manufactured jurisdiction defense fails

where ‘[t]he government merely afforded the opportunity, and the defendant chose to seize it.’”

(quoting United States v. Peters, 952 F.2d 960, 963 (7th Cir. 1992))). Accordingly, the district court

did not err by rejecting this defense.

B. Adequacy of Miranda Waiver

       Al-Cholan argues that the district court erred by refusing to suppress his post-arrest

statements, since his allegedly “minimal understanding” of English undermined the validity of his

Miranda waiver. We review the district court’s findings of fact with respect to Al-Cholan’s

suppression motion for clear error, and its ultimate legal conclusion as to the waiver’s sufficiency

de novo. United States v. See, 574 F.3d 309, 313 (6th Cir. 2009); see also Thompkins v. Berghuis,

547 F.3d 572, 583 (6th Cir. 2008) (“This court reviews a trial court’s legal conclusions on Miranda

waivers de novo, and findings of fact underlying those conclusions for clear error.” (quoting United

States v. Rodriguez, 518 F.3d 1072, 1076 (9th Cir. 2008))). Because Al-Cholan’s motion was denied

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below, we “review[] the evidence in the light most likely to support the district court’s decision.”

United States v. Adams, 583 F.3d 457, 463 (6th Cir. 2009).

       Statements made in response to custodial police interrogation must be suppressed unless the

suspect first waived his Miranda rights “voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently.” Colorado v.

Spring, 479 U.S. 564, 572 (1987) (quoting Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 444 (1966)). Both

the voluntariness and comprehension aspects of the waiver inquiry should be examined “primarily

from the perspective of the police,” such that where “[the] police had no reason to believe that [the

defendant] misunderstood the warnings, . . . there is no basis for invalidating [the] Miranda waiver.”

Garner v. Mitchell, 557 F.3d 257, 263 (6th Cir. 2009).

       While it is true that “language difficulties may impair the ability of a person in custody to

waive [his Miranda] rights in a free and aware manner,” United States v. Heredia-Fernandez, 756

F.2d 1412, 1415 (9th Cir. 1985), the district court’s factual finding that Al-Cholan understood

English sufficiently well to render his Miranda waiver voluntary, knowing, and intelligent is not

clearly erroneous. At the time of these events, Al-Cholan had resided in the United States for twelve

years, and the agents knew as much. As part of the naturalization process, he had passed an English

proficiency test and sworn under penalty of perjury that he could speak and understand English; the

agents knew this as well.3 The agent posing as the girl’s uncle had a brief conversation in English

       3
         Al-Cholan argues, based on his expert witness’s testimony, that the citizenship test requires
an elementary-school knowledge of English, while the Miranda warnings are written at an
eighth-grade reading level. Even assuming that this is true, and that the officers should have known
as much, Al-Cholan’s passing a test requiring at least an elementary-school knowledge of English
by no means forecloses the possibility that he had a higher level of fluency.

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with Al-Cholan, which was captured on tape; during that conversation, the agent specifically asked

if Al-Cholan spoke English, and Al-Cholan answered “yes.” Al-Cholan signed a written Miranda

waiver in English and, according to the agents’ testimony, did not indicate any lack of

comprehension at the time.       Upon arriving at the station-house, Al-Cholan completed an

English-language medical questionnaire with no difficulties. He conversed naturally with the agents

in English during the interviews. The first sign of any language barrier (whether feigned or genuine)

arose only after the damaging statements were elicited.

       Accordingly, whether or not Al-Cholan truly understood the Miranda warnings, the agents

certainly had no contemporaneous reason to doubt that he did. Our inquiry necessarily ends there.

See Garner, 557 F.3d at 263.

C. Propriety of Sentence Enhancement

       Finally, Al-Cholan takes issue with the district court’s imposition of a sentence enhancement

under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.5(b) on the basis of “a pattern of activity involving prohibited sexual

conduct.”4 He styles his argument as a claim under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004),

since his sentence was enhanced “based on evidence [not] presented to a jury.” Such a claim

patently lacks merit, as there is no longer any Sixth Amendment issue with judicial fact-finding

under the now-advisory Guidelines. See United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338, 352 (2007) (“In many

       4
          Under the Guidelines, “[a] defendant [has] engaged in a pattern of activity involving
prohibited sexual conduct if on at least two separate occasions, the defendant engaged in prohibited
sexual conduct with a minor.” U.S.S.G. § 4B1.5, comment. (n.4(B)(i)). These two separate
occasions may include “the instant offense,” and prior occasions need not have resulted in a
conviction to qualify. Id. (n.4(B)(ii)). “Prohibited sexual conduct” includes federal offenses
involving the abuse of children and state-law analogues. Id. (n.4(A)).

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cases, the sentencing judge, not the jury, will determine the existence of [sentence-enhancing]

facts.”); United States v. Bah, 439 F.3d 423, 426 n.1 (8th Cir. 2006) (“[J]udicial fact-finding . . . is

permitted provided that the guidelines are applied in an advisory manner.”) (cited with approval in

United States v. Ferguson, 456 F.3d 660, 665 (6th Cir. 2006)).

       Although Al-Cholan’s brief makes a nod toward Blakely, the actual gravamen of his

argument is that there was insufficient evidence for the district court to have concluded that such a

pattern existed. District-court factual findings underlying the imposition of a sentence are reviewed

for clear error, United States v. Ward, 506 F.3d 468, 472 (6th Cir. 2007), and must be supported by

the preponderance of the evidence, Ferguson, 456 F.3d at 665.

       There is more than enough evidence in the record to support the district court’s

determination.    Primarily, Hanna testified that Al-Cholan had admitted to over 100 sexual

experiences with minors in Iraq and in Michigan. Restricting our discussion to conduct within the

United States, these minors included a high school girl in Taylor, Michigan; another girl he picked

up on Telegraph Road in Detroit; and a Kuwaiti youth who came to Al-Cholan’s garage to have his

car fixed.

       Al-Cholan objects to the hearsay nature of Hanna’s testimony, but hearsay evidence is

permissible in sentencing proceedings, provided the statements “have some minimal indicium of

reliability.” United States v. Manis, 344 F. App’x 160, 165 (6th Cir. 2009) (stating that “this

standard presents a relatively low hurdle” (internal quotation marks omitted)). “[C]orroborating

evidence can provide [hearsay] statements with a sufficient indicia of reliability,” ibid., and Hanna’s

testimony was amply corroborated. Several of Al-Cholan’s statements about past sexual molestation

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were caught on audio tape – including his statement that he “d[idn’t] go looking for [boys] as much

as girls,” but that he would take advantage of the opportunity if a boy “fall[s] into the net,” and his

story about receiving fellatio from a Kuwaiti youth. Additionally, the government proffered as

corroborative evidence a Dearborn police report which described “a man matching Al-Cholan’s

description, driving a green minivan also matching Al-Cholan’s” having made advances on a

seven-year-old girl near the same Dearborn Walgreens where, according to Hanna, Al-Cholan trolled

for children. Thus, we conclude that the district court did not err in imposing the sentence

enhancement.

                                          CONCLUSION

       For the foregoing reasons, Al-Cholan’s conviction and sentence are AFFIRMED.

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