USCA1 Opinion

      [NOT FOR PUBLICATION--NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]

                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 97-2431



                          UNITED STATES,



                            Appellee,



                                v.



              JORGE DESOUSA, a/k/a Mitchell George,



                      Defendant, Appellant.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS



         [Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Judge]







                              Before



                      Torruella, Chief Judge,

               Selya and Boudin, Circuit Judges.

                                

                                





     John P. Crowley III and Hobbins, Gardner, Gardner & Murphy,

LLC on brief for appellant.

     











July 31, 1998





                                

                                









                                               Per Curiam.  Upon careful review of the appellant's

    brief, we conclude that this appeal presents no substantial

    issue and is appropriate for summary disposition.  See 1st Cir.

    Loc. R. 27.1.  Accordingly, we sever this appeal (No. 97-2431)

    from the other appeals (Nos. 97-2193, 97-2312, 97-2363, and 97-

    2432) with which it previously was consolidated.

              We reject appellant's contention that the district

    court erred in applying the enhancement under U.S.S.G. 

    2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a dangerous weapon during a drug

    offense.  Appellant and his co-conspirator were involved in

    distributing substantial quantities of cocaine; appellant

    admittedly knew that his co-conspirator possessed a gun; and

    the gun was found in appellant's condominium, along with drugs,

    cash, and ammunition.  On those facts, the district court did

    not clearly err in applying the enhancement to appellant's

    sentence.  See United States v. Bianco, 922 F.2d, 910, 912 (1st

    Cir. 1991). 

              Affirmed.