221197P.pdf   12/12/2022  United States  v.  Manuel Flores
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1197
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Benton and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. The postal inspector did not 
   seize defendant's package when the inspector followed normal postal 
   service policies by retaining the package and calling the sender listed on 
   the label after the package could not be delivered to the named recipient; 
   the sender could consent to a search of the package, and the inspector 
   reasonably believed the person he called was the package's sender; motel 
   staff could surrender defendant's phone after he left it in his room when 
   he checked out, and the officers had reasonable suspicion to believe the 
   phone contained evidence of criminal activity; temporary seizure of the 
   phone while officers sought a warrant did not meaningfully interfere with 
   defendant's possessory interests; defendant's sentence, an upward variance 
   based on his jail conduct between his arrest and the sentencing, was not 
   an abuse of the district court's discretion, and the sentence, a six-month 
   upward variance from the mandatory minimum, was not substantively 
   unreasonable.