234 F.3d 384 (8th Cir. 2000)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE,V.JUAN CAUSOR-SERRATO, APPELLANT.
No. 00-1082
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
Submitted: September 12, 2000Filed: December 8, 2000

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.[Copyrighted Material Omitted]
Before Hansen, Heaney, and Morris Sheppard Arnold, Circuit Judges.
Hansen, Circuit Judge.


1
A jury convicted Juan Causor-Serrato of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (1994). The district court sentenced Causor-Serrato to 210 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release. Causor-Serrato now appeals both his conviction and his sentence on several grounds, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction; the admissibility of coconspirator hearsay statements; the district court's drug quantity determination at sentencing; and the district court's failure to considermet with Causor-Serrato and Sanchez-Ramirez at the Wal-Mart parking lot in Denison, Iowa, to arrange a purchase of methamphetamine. Wanting to avoid surveillance cameras in the parking lot, Sanchez-Ramirez ordered that the meeting be moved to the Iowa Beef Packers (IBP) parking lot. Once at IBP, Causor-Serrato waited in his truck while the meeting between Agent Hurley and Sanchez-Ramirez took place. Agent Hurley paid Sanchez- Ramirez $4950 on Wendt's behalf, satisfying a past-due drug debt. Sanchez-Ramirez then fronted the agent two, one-ounce packages of methamphetamine and arranged a one-pound purchase costing $12,000 with delivery and payment to be made later.


5
On April 6, 1998, Mancini alerted Agent Hurley that Sanchez-Ramirez and Causor-Serrato had just delivered eight ounces of methamphetamine to her home in Kiron, Iowa, and were looking for