NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SEP 20 2018 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 17-50175 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 5:13-cr-00086-JGB v. MEMORANDUM* SANG HING WONG, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Jesus G. Bernal, District Judge, Presiding Submitted September 12, 2018** Before: LEAVY, HAWKINS, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Sang Hing Wong, Jr., appeals from the district court’s judgment revoking his supervised release and imposing a 37-month sentence. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Wong contends that the district court erred in denying his request to

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). continue his revocation hearing pending the resolution of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. The government argues that Wong’s request should be construed as a request for a stay, rather than a request for a continuance. We need not resolve that question because the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying the request, even if it is considered as a request for a continuance. See United States v. Rivera-Guerrero, 426 F.3d 1130, 1138 (9th Cir. 2005). In light of the circumstances of this case, the district court’s decision to deny Wong’s twelfth request for a continuance was not “arbitrary or unreasonable.” Id. (internal quotations omitted).

AFFIRMED.

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