USCA1 Opinion

       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]

                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 98-2309



                          UNITED STATES,



                            Appellee,



                                v.



                  RIGOBERTO VALDES, a/k/a RIGO,



                      Defendant, Appellant.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO



        [Hon. Juan M. Perez-Gimenez, U.S. District Judge]







                              Before



                      Selya, Circuit Judge,

                 Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge,

                   and Stahl, Circuit Judge.

                                

                                

                                

                                

     Rigoberto Valdes on brief pro se.

     Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco,

Assistant United States Attorney, and Camille Velez-Rive, Assistant

United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.











May 26, 1999







                                

                                



     Per Curiam.  We affirm the order denying appellant's motion to

modify his sentence.  Because appellant's minimum guideline

sentence exceeded the statutory minimum mandatory sentence,

appellant was not helped by 18 U.S.C.  3553(f).  Because amendment

515, which added the two level reduction for offenders who satisfy

the five requirements set forth in  3553(f), is not retroactive,

United States v. Sanchez, 81 F.3d 9, 12-13 (1st Cir. 1995); U.S.S.G.

 1B1.10(c), appellant was not eligible for a sentence reduction. 

     Affirmed.