No. 24-1130 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v. QUINTIN T. FERGUSON, Defendant-Appellant. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division. No. 3:21CR30 — Damon R. Leichty, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED FEBRUARY 4, 2025 — DECIDED MARCH 17, 2025 ____________________

Before SYKES, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and PRYOR, Circuit Judges. EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge. Quintin Ferguson was sen- tenced to 240 months’ imprisonment for violating 18 U.S.C. §844(i). The district court treated him as a career offender un- der U.S.S.G. §4B1.1(a) after concluding that §844(i) is a “crime of violence”. Classification as a career offender is appropriate only if the current conviction and at least two prior convic- tions are for felony drug offenses or crimes of violence. 2 No. 24-1130 Guideline 4B1.2(a)(2) specifies that “arson”