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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 9-1019 / 09-0874 Filed December 30, 2009

STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. JEREMY LEE McATEE, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________

Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Linn County, Marsha M. Beckelman, Judge.

Jeremy Lee McAtee appeals his convictions for violating pseudoephedrine purchasing restrictions and for possessing pseudoephedrine with intent that it be used to manufacture a controlled substance. AFFIRMED.

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Robert P. Ranschau, Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber, Assistant Attorney General, Harold Denton, County Attorney, and Jerry Vander Sanden, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by Vogel, P.J., and Doyle and Mansfield, JJ.

2 MANSFIELD, J. Jeremy Lee McAtee appeals his convictions following a bench trial for violating the restrictions on purchasing pseudoephedrine set forth in Iowa Code sections 124.212(4) and 124.213 (2007), and for possessing pseudoephedrine with intent that it be used to manufacture a controlled substance as prohibited by section 124.401(4). McAtee contends the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions. Specifically, he maintains that no one personally identified him as making the purchases shown in the State's exhibits and no one testified he was involved with the manufacture of methamphetamine or was associated with anyone who was. Upon our review, we reject McAtee's sufficiency arguments and affirm the carefully reasoned decision of the district court. The trial evidence showed numerous purchases of pseudoephedrine were made from pharmacies in Cedar Rapids under McAtee's name during the second half of 2007 and the first half of 2008. In summary, these purchases were as follows: Target: 13 separate purchases of 2.4 grams each between 8/25/07 and 6/19/08

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