[NOT FOR PUBLICATION] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT No. 97-1855 UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. DANIEL LEWIS, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND [Hon. Francis J. Boyle, Senior U.S. District Judge] Before Boudin, Stahl and Lynch, Circuit Judges. James L. Sultan, Charles W. Rankin and Rankin & Sultan on brief for appellant. Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Attorney, Margaret E. Curran and Gerard B. Sullivan, Assistant United States Attorneys, on brief for appellee. January 26, 1998 Per Curiam. Upon careful review of the briefs and record, we conclude that the pat-frisk of defendant was a permissible search and that district court correctly denied suppression of the evidence discovered during that search. We reach this conclusion essentially for the reasons expressed by the district court in its order dated September 9, 1996. We thus reject defendant's appellate contentions that the officers lacked a reasonable suspicion grounded in specific and articulable facts to justify the search and that the officer conducting the search personally did not possess such a reasonable suspicion. Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1. -2-