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TINDER, Circuit Judge. Beginning in August of 2009, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) and the FBI conducted a coordinated investigation of a suspected cocaine-distribution organization operating in the Indianapolis area. The two law enforcement agencies employed a variety of investigative techniques, including interviews of confidential informants and suspects, surveillance, staged or controlled drug purchases, and consensual (on one side) recording of telephone conversations. In addition, the investigation utilized court-authorized pen registers of telephone traffic, wiretaps of telephone conversations, and interdiction stops of selected individuals, which were often initiated on the basis of information gleaned from those wiretaps. This coordinated law enforcement operation continued until January 20, 2010, when a series of searches and arrests were effectuated. A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Indiana then issued an indictment (and subsequently, a superseding indictment) that leveled charges related to the distribution of drugs against twenty defendants, including the appellants in this case, Ramone Mockabee, Kenneth Jones, Elisha Drake, and Devon Young. Jones, Draké, and Young contested the charges against them at a jury trial, but were all convicted. Mockabee pleaded guilty. We will discuss the particulars of the counts of conviction and the penalties imposed later. For now, we note that all appellants individually raise a variety of pretrial, trial, and sentencing issues, and we have consolidated their appeals. Ultimately, we affirm the convictions that Jones, Drake, and Young now appeal, but we vacate the sentences of Mockabee, Jones, and Drake, and remand their cases for resentencing. Before we tackle the multitude of separate issues raised by each appellant, however, we will first discuss the evidence and procedures common to all of them, and then discuss specific facts relating to each one in turn. I. Background on the Evidence In this cocaine-distribution organization, appellant Mockabee was the central figure. Mockabee obtained his supply of powder cocaine from Dominic Robinson and Damon Luter. After obtaining powder cocaine, Mockabee stored it at a house located at 781 West 25th Street in Indianapolis, which was his center of operation. There he would also cook some of the powder into crack cocaine. Mockabee’s distribution method functioned through a regular routine as follows. His customers would telephone him, and through the use of coded language' — asking questions such as, “Are you down the way?” — they would express their interest in acquiring cocaine. If the inquiry met with a favorable response, the customer would travel to the 25th Street residence and knock on the back door. Upon hearing a knock, Mocka-bee would admit only one person at a time, even if several were lined up outside the residence waiting to enter. Once inside the 25th Street residence, customers would either be allowed to go up to the kitchen and deal with Mockabee, or they would go downstairs to deal with a separate supplier named Diomoni Small. One customer, Serón Poole, testified at trial that once or twice a week, he had purchased one to two ounces in this manner from Mockabee beginning in the fall of 2008 and lasting until the summer of 2009. Another customer, Devon Hudgins, testified that he had purchased between one-eighth and three-eighths ounces of crack from Mockabee two or three times a month from the summer of 2009 until December of that year. Utilizing court-authorized wiretaps, the coordinated FBI-IMPD investigation monitored four target cell phones from late November 2009 through January of the following year. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-1, 20-27. The case agent in charge of the wiretap investigation was IMPD Detective Ryan Clark, who was a member of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force. At the joint trial of Jones, Drake, and Young, Detective Clark testified that the principal users of these four target phones were Mockabee, Small, Lonnie Belmar (another supplier operating from a residence nearby at 736 West 25th Street), and Robinson. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-1, 20-27. The wiretapping of these four target phones resulted in the interception of over 10,000 telephone conversations. At trial, the government played recordings and provided written transcripts of several intercepted phone calls in an attempt to link the appellants to the cocaine-distribution organization. But because the participants in these intercepted phone conversations did not “use words like ‘cocaine,’ ‘crack cocaine,’ or ‘powder cocaine,’ ” Detective Clark provided opinion testimony about the meaning of the words actually used. Clark asserted that participants in these conversations were speaking in a “coded language” in an attempt to hide their cocaine-distribution activities. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-2, 97. Hudgins similarly testified that the speakers in phone conversations avoided using words like “crack cocaine” and “crack” because if someone was listening, “then they’d know what we was talking about.” Trial Tr. vol. 1, 95-96, Jan. 10, 2011. In addition to the wiretapped phone calls and Clark’s supporting' testimony, the government presented testimony from individuals who had been involved in the conspiracy as well as testimony from other law enforcement officials. We turn to an examination of the evidence relevant to each of the three individual appellants — Drake, Young, and Jones — who went to trial. A. Evidence Relevant to Drake The first overheard conversation introduced at trial against Drake began on November 27, 2009, when Drake asked Mockabee if she could “holler at!’ him. Detective Clark testified that, based on his training and experience, Drake was asking Mockabee if she could purchase crack cocaine from him. No. 11-2267 Dkt. 78-2, 121-22. A few weeks later, on December 14, Drake asked Mockabee if she could “slide through.” Mockabee responded by asking her an unusual question: “Is it the same address?” Drake replied that it was. Clark told the jury that “same address” was a coded term meaning the same amount of cocaine Drake had acquired during her last purchase. Because Drake had previously ordered “one,” Clark believed that Drake was asking Mockabee if she could come to the 781 West 25th Street residence so she could purchase one ounce of crack cocaine. On the witness stand, Clark soundly rebutted any suggestion that “same address” referred to an actual street address, noting, “Ms. Drake is driving to Mr. Mocka-bee. He’s stationary at a location. He wouldn’t ask the address of where he already was.” Id. at 171-72. Drake and Mockabee spoke again that day, approximately six hours later. In that conversation, Drake requested permission to “fly through real quick,” to which Mockabee responded by asking whether she wanted the “same address.” Clark again explained that he understood “same address” to mean the same amount of cocaine as before. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-3, 5-6. Clark’s interpretation was consistent with Hudgins’s testimony that “address” was a common code word Mockabee used, and when Mockabee asked for the address, he was asking how much crack Hudgins wanted. Drake and Mockabee were overheard talking again the next day, with Drake inquiring whether he was “ready.” Mock-abee responded that he was “shut down.” Although he was “putting his apron on the last stuff,” he presently “had nothing but cataracts,” and it would “probably be tomorrow.” Detective Clark interpreted Mockabee’s remarks to mean that “[Mock-abee] had already sold the last of’ his cocaine, he presently had nothing but marijuana, and it would probably be tomorrow before he had cooked more crack to sell. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-3, 5-6. This testimony was supported by Hudgins’s testimony that when he called Mockabee on the phone he would say something like “are you ready for me,” or “are you down the way,” which meant that he wanted to obtain some crack cocaine. Trial Tr. vol. 196, Jan. 10, 2011. Hudgins also testified that when Mockabee told him, “I’m shut down,” Hudgins understood him to mean that he had no crack cocaine. Id. at 109. Finally, Hudgins testified that when Mock-abee said he was “putting my apron on” Mockabee meant that he was cooking cocaine into crack. Trial. Tr. vol. 1, 98. Six days later, on December 21, Drake called Mockabee, asking, “Still nothin’?” to which he responded, “I ain’t called you yet.” Clark interpreted this conversation as an inquiry about the availability of cocaine with a negative response. Then five days later, Drake was overheard asking Mockabee if he was “still out.” Mockabee responded, “[I]t’ll probably have to be tomorrow. ... I have to put that shit together.” Clark concluded that “shit” referred to cocaine, and that Mockabee needed to get more cocaine to distribute to Drake. No. 1-2267 App. Dkt. 78-3, 22-23. Mockabee and Drake continued to have similar conversations over the course of the next two weeks. On December 28, 2009, Mockabee told Drake, “Ain’t nuttin’ yet. I ain’t called you yet, Kelly,” — Kelly was a nickname of Drake’s — which Clark interpreted to mean that Mockabee “still ha[d]n’t obtained any cocaine.” Id. at 23-24. On December 31, Drake again asked Mockabee if she could “slide through.” Id. at 28. On January 4, 2010, Drake asked Mockabee if she could “holla” at him, which Clark interpreted to mean “come and make a purchase of crack cocaine from Mockabee.” Id. at 39. A little over an hour later, Drake asked Mockabee if he was “ready,” and he responded affirmatively. Clark’s take on that conversation was that “ready” meant “ready to make a sale of crack cocaine” to Drake. Id. at 40. Hudgins similarly testified that when Mockabee said that he was “ready to take care of something” it meant that he “still wasn’t ready, ... he still had to cook” the crack cocaine. Trial Tr. vol. 1, 112, Jan. 10, 2011. This conversation between Drake and Mockabee followed Mockabee’s receipt of a kilogram of cocaine from Damon Luter by about four hours. Finally, on January 9, 2010 — in what may have been a pivotal conversation with respect to the government’s theory that Drake was a member of the Mockabee cocaine-distribution conspiracy — Mockabee told Drake, “[Y]ou doin’ some, uh ... slip-pin’ in your pimpin’. You need to be careful, man, what you doin.’ ” Detective Clark explained that in this remark, Mockabee was “cautioning Ms. Drake on how she’s handling her [drug trafficking] business transactions.” Drake responded to Mock-abee’s comment by denying that she had been “trippin’ on shit,” and by assuring Mockabee that he could “talk about my business, but you about the only one that can ... my business is your business ... just like yours is mine.” No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-3, 53. In addition to Drake’s conversations with Mockabee, Clark and his team overheard Drake’s conversations with other involved parties via wiretap. For example, on November 8, 2009, they overheard Drake asking Lonnie Belmar if she could come “holler at” him. When Belmar gave an affirmative response, Drake then told Belmar, “I’m ‘bout to go holler at her real quick and I’ll be back to holler at you.” Clark testified that this statement meant Drake had to meet with one of her cocaine customers before she could meet with Bel-mar to purchase cocaine. No. 11-2267 Dkt. 78-2, 122-23. Drake was also intercepted during a December 12, 2009, phone conversation with Belmar, in which she mentioned law enforcement activity in the neighborhood. She told Belmar that the police “got a nigga stretched out in the alley” near the house from which Belmar distributed crack cocaine. She also said, “[Y]ou all make sure you be careful when you all head to the hood.” Clark described this conversation as a warning to Belmar about police activity near his crack distribution location. Drake had apparently been in the neighborhood to witness the law enforcement activity because she “had one of [her] stings call ... wantfing] some.” Clark told the jury that “sting” referred to a cocaine customer, and “some” meant cocaine. In this conversation, Drake further remarked to Belmar that although she “didn’t have shit on [her],” she had “seen all that” and “was like shit, I’m gettin’ the fuck away from here.” Belmar responded by asking if Drake had called “Mone.” Clark explained that “Mone” referred to the defendant Ramone Mockabee. No. 11-2267 Dkt. 78-2,153. B. Evidence Relevant to Young The government also presented wiretapped conversations involving appellant Young. Specifically, it presented intercepted conversations between Young and Belmar as well as between Young and Mockabee. Of all the conversations replayed at trial for use against Young, perhaps the most damaging conversation involved Belmar. Before the prosecution played a recording of the telephone conversation between Young and Belmar from December 8, 2009, Detective Clark first provided some background about the process of turning powder cocaine into crack cocaine, noting, “Powder cocaine is taken and mixed with a certain amount of cutting agent, usually baking soda. Water’s added to that. It’s boiled. In the boiling process, the oils and the moisture in the cocaine evaporate, and you’re left with a hard, solid substance, which is crack cocaine.” No. 11-2267 Dkt. 78-2, 143-44. The prosecution then played the December 8th conversation, in which Young was overheard telling Bel-mar, “My person has some software, it won’t get hard when you cook it.” Belmar responded by advising Young to “melt it down,” “pour the water off,” “throw [baking] soda on it,” and “keep stirring it up.” Young later told Mockabee that the person with the software “owe[d]” him. Detective Clark testified that the “person” with the troublesome “software” discussed in this conversation was likely one of Young’s customers. Clark further suggested that this particular customer was in a “fronting” relationship with Young, such that Young had given cocaine to this customer “on consignment,” and the customer now owed Young money “on the back end.” No. 11-2267 Dkt. 78-2, 144-48. Young’s wiretapped conversations with Mockabee certainly did not help his case either. For example, the prosecution played a recording of a January 7, 2010 conversation, in which Young was overheard telling Mockabee that he “was trying to come up this way,” and Mockabee responded, “It’d be a couple hours.” No. 11-2267 Dkt. 78-3, 42. Detective Clark interpreted this conversation to mean that Young wanted to purchase cocaine from Mockabee, but Mockabee was not presently available. In subsequent conversations that day, Young continued to ask Mocka-bee if he was “ready.” Once Mockabee responded affirmatively in a conversation on January 8 (by saying, “I’ll be there in ten minutes”), Young told Mockabee that he “probably needed the same -thing.” Clark interpreted this statement to mean that Young needed the “same amount of cocaine that he had previously obtained from Mr. Mockabee.” Id. at 44. Based on this interpretation of the January 8 conversation, law enforcement believed that a drug transaction between Mockabee and Young was imminent at the 781 West 25th Street residence. As a result, law enforcement officers stopped Young’s vehicle after it left the residence that day. Finding Young and his associate, Gary Davis, in the car, police recovered 41.9 grams of powder cocaine from Davis’s crotch area. At trial, three witnesses — Gary Davis, Ernest French, and Brooke Taggart — all testified that Young was more than just a mere buyer of cocaine; rather, he was actively engaged in the sale of cocaine to others. Davis, an Indianapolis native who had been using illegal drugs since age twenty, spent the three years between 2005 and 2008 in Kentucky getting clean and sober. Upon moving back to Indianapolis, Davis promptly became reacquainted with two of his old friends: Young and crack cocaine. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-2, 30-39. Davis’s rekindled friendships soon convinced him to begin working for Young; Young, in turn, would compensate Davis in crack cocaine. According to Davis’s testimony, this arrangement began after Young approached him in October 2008 and asked Davis to accompany him to Columbus, Indiana. Davis agreed to ride with Young, and thus began Young’s and Davis’s weekly trips to Columbus, which continued until their interdiction stop on January 8, 2010. On these weekly trips, Young would hand Davis an amount of crack cocaine (typically one ounce) for Davis to hide in his underwear in order to avoid detection by law enforcement. Next, the two men would drive to either an apartment or a parking lot in Columbus. Davis would then hand the crack cocaine back to Young upon arrival, and Young would deliver the crack to his customers and collect payment. These customers, according to Davis, included both Ernest French and Brooke Taggart. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-2, 39^17. French, like Davis, also testified at trial for the prosecution. French indicated that from the spring of 2008 until January 2010, he purchased crack cocaine from Young during his trips to Columbus. With the exception of one ninety-day break, French bought one to two ounces of crack cocaine every week during this two-year period. On some occasions, Young advanced (that is, fronted) the cocaine to French without payment. French corroborated that Davis was with Young for some of the trips but indicated that another person rode along instead of Davis on some occasions. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-3,148-51. In Taggart’s testimony for the prosecution, she too corroborated that Young made regular trips to Columbus with someone else in order to sell crack cocaine (although Taggart could only identify the person accompanying Young on these trips as “Fats”). Taggart began transacting with Young in June 2010 as a matter of convenience; since Young came to her in Columbus, she no longer had to drive to Indianapolis to obtain crack cocaine. Tag-gart testified that she typically purchased a quarter-ounce to a half-ounce of crack cocaine from Young twice per week using cash; she then resold the crack cocaine to someone else. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-2, 78-81. C. Evidence Relevant to Jones The wiretap of Mockabee’s phone also provided damaging evidence against appellant Jones. Specifically, this wiretap revealed six transactions in which Mockabee sold distribution quantities of crack cocaine to Jones. In the telephone conversations replayed at trial, Jones was overheard on November 25, 2009, telling Mockabee, “I was trying to see what the address was,” and later in the conversation, asking Mockabee for “one.” Once again, Detective Clark and Devon Hudgins interpreted these statements to signify that Jones had been trying to determine the amount of crack cocaine that his customer wanted, and eventually decided that he required one ounce of cocaine from Mockabee. Similarly, Jones was overheard on November 27, 2009, telling Mockabee, “I’m going to slide down there in a minute,” and “It’s all the same.” Detective Clark interpreted these statements to mean that Jones intended to purchase the same one-ounce quantity of cocaine from Mockabee that he had purchased only two days before. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-2, 118-20. On December 2, 2009, Jones and Mocka-bee spoke again. In this conversation, Mockabee told Jones, “I got [to] fill that up for you man,” and “I had just got through taking the apron off.” Jones responded that he had “jumped up” and needed Mockabee to “give [him] the sing and a half.” Detective Clark believed that Jones was conveying to Mockabee that he wanted more cocaine than he had in his previous orders — one and a half ounces. At the same time, Mockabee was conveying to Jones that he was “getting the order together of crack cocaine” by “cooking” powder cocaine. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-2,132-33. The next conversation between Mocka-bee and Jones introduced into evidence at trial came from five days later, on December 7, 2009, during which Mockabee asked Jones, “What’s the address?” and Jones responded, “Same.” Like all of the other address conversations, Detective Clark believed that Mockabee’s inquiry was about the amount of cocaine desired. Jones’s response, according to Clark, signified that he desired one ounce of crack cocaine. Id. at 141-42. Another conversation from December 11 was then played at trial, in which Mockabee again asked Jones for “the address,” and Jones responded “two” plus “some chez.” Clark testified that here, Jones was ordering two ounces of crack cocaine plus some marijuana from Mockabee. Id. at 149-50. The final conversation between Mockabee and Jones played at trial came from January 4, 2010, when Mockabee advised Jones that he was “back up running.” Clark believed this call signified that Mockabee “had obtained cocaine and was ready to sell” it to Jones. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-3, 38-39. In addition to these six wiretapped telephone conversations, the government introduced some physical evidence against Jones, most of which came from a house at 2713 Eagledale Drive in Indianapolis. Jones’s phone calls to Mockabee were critical in linking Jones with the Eagledale address. In all of his conversations with Mockabee, Jones had used a cell phone with the number 317-333-4974. After hearing the six conversations between Jones and Mockabee in which the two men appeared to discuss cocaine transactions, Detective Clark obtained a court order allowing his IMPD/FBI team to use GPS technology to locate this cell phone. Clark’s law enforcement team used the court order twice to locate the cell phone: first, on January 11, 2010, at 5:38 am, and second, on January 15, 2010, at 7:01 am. The team specifically chose these two particular times to locate the cell phone associated with Jones because “early morning hours[] are the time that an individual’s most likely to be in their true residence, that most people sleep.” Both times, the cell phone associated with Jones was traced to the 2713 Eagledale Drive address. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-6, 90-91. Moreover, on those same days, law enforcement observed a car registered to Jones parked in close proximity to the Eagledale address during the early morning hours. Based on these car sightings, the intercepted calls, and the two supporting GPS locations of the cell phone used by Jones, the IMPD/FBI team obtained a search warrant for the Eagledale Drive address. Law enforcement executed the search warrant during the early morning hours of January 20,2010. Gov’t Appx. 3, 78. While executing the search warrant, law enforcement discovered Jones inside the house at 2713 Eagledale Drive and arrested him there. In addition, law enforcement found a variety of incriminating items throughout the house, including (1) several pieces of crack cocaine on a towel, amounting to 36.6 grams, located on the kitchen countertop behind a marijuana plant; (2) 7.8 grams of crack cocaine in a Pyrex measuring cup, located on the kitchen counter next to a digital scale with suspected (but apparently untested) cocaine residue; (3) 1.3 grams of crack cocaine, also located on the kitchen counter next to some money and a couple of cell phones; (4) 47.6 grams of crack cocaine contained within a Pyrex mixing bowl and covered with rags, located by an entertainment center in the living room; (5) a loaded .22 caliber Ruger pistol, located behind the entertainment center in the living room; (6) 6.8 grams of crack cocaine, located next to suspected (but apparently untested) marijuana on a mattress in the middle of the living room floor; (7) a MAK-90 semiautomatic assault rifle, located on the floor of the master bedroom with “clothing and items of personal belongings scattered near and on or about it”; (8) a .22 caliber Ruger rifle, also located on the floor of the master bedroom but obscured from view because it was underneath some clothes; (9) a digital scale containing cocaine residue, located inside a shoebox in the second bedroom; (10) another digital scale, located inside a clear plastic tub (that also contained many other items) in the second bedroom; (11) the cell phone that Jones had used to call Mockabee (corresponding to telephone number 317-333-4974); and (12) a substantial stack of cash. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-6, 32-77. With all this evidence in mind, we turn now to Jones’s particular claims of error with respect to the pretrial rulings. (Neither Drake nor Young alleges error with respect to pretrial motions). II. Pretrial Error Claims: Jones’s Motion to Suppress Before trial, Jones moved to suppress the evidence seized during the search of the residence at 2713 Eagledale Drive. The focus of his motion was whether Detective Clark’s affidavit supporting the search warrant provided sufficient information to link Jones to the Eagledale. Without that link to him and his wiretapped drug conversations, Jones argues, the police had no basis to search the house. The affidavit claimed that 2713 Eagledale Drive was Jones’s “residence”; the only support for this claim presented in the affidavit were the two early-morning GPS locations of Jones’s cell phone and two early-morning sightings of Jones’s car at that location. When reviewing the denial of a motion to suppress, we review the district court’s legal conclusions de novo and its factual findings for clear error. United States v. Glover, 755 F.3d 811, 815-16 (7th Cir.2014). In his motion to suppress, Jones objected to the affidavit’s identification of 2713 Eagledale Drive as his “residence.” He pointed out that, first, nothing was presented to the magistrate judge issuing the search warrant about the ownership or rental of the house at 2713 Eagledale Drive. Second, nothing was presented linking the registration of Jones’s car or cell phone to that address. Third, nothing was presented to suggest that Jones himself had been seen at or around that address. Fourth, nothing was presented to indicate that a drug transaction had been initiated or had taken place at that address. In spite of these four objections, the district judge concluded that there was probable cause to believe that 2713 Eagle-dale Drive was “if not Jones’s only residence, at least one location at which Jones resided.” Dkt. 643, 7. Emphasizing the fact that law enforcement both spotted his vehicle at the residence and located his cell phone during early-morning hours, the judge noted that: most people are not usually at their place of employment or engaged in social activity at such early hours.... The fact that Jones’s vehicle and cell phone were within the residence at 2713 Eagle-dale Drive during those early morning hours is sufficient to support the common sense conclusion that the address was a location at which Jones resided during the relevant time period and would thus probably be a location where contraband would be stashed. Dkt. 643, 7. Furthermore, the district judge determined that even if probable cause had not been present in the affidavit, the search was saved by the good-faith exception to the warrant requirement. See United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 922, 104 S.Ct. 3405, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984) (finding that a law enforcement officer’s good faith, “objectively reasonable rebanee on a subsequently invalidated search warrant cannot justify the substantial costs of exclusion” of evidence). The district judge accordingly denied Jones’s motion to suppress. Like the district judge, we, too, believe that Detective Clark’s affidavit contained sufficient information to support a finding of probable cause. Law enforcement officials have probable cause sufficient to support a search warrant when “the known facts and circumstances are sufficient to warrant a man of reasonable prudence in the belief that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found.” Orne-las v. United States, 517 U.S. 690, 696, 116 S.Ct. 1657, 134 L.Ed.2d 911 (1996). As the district judge correctly pointed out, the government’s burden of proof under the probable cause standard is lower than it is at trial. See Braun v. Baldwin, 346 F.3d 761, 766 (7th Cir.2003) (“Probable cause is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or even proof by a preponderance of evidence.”). Compounding Jones’s troubles is the fact that we “afford great deference to the decision of the judge issuing the warrant.” United States v. Aljabari, 626 F.3d 940, 944 (7th Cir.2010) (quoting United States v. Bell, 585 F.3d 1045, 1049 (7th Cir.2009)) (internal quotation marks omitted). Under this deference, we must uphold the magistrate’s decision here so long as there was “a substantial basis for concluding that a search would uncover evidence of a crime.” Glover, 755 F.3d at 816. A magistrate judge issuing a warrant “is entitled to draw reasonable inferences about where evidence is likely to be kept, based on the nature of the evidence and the type of offense.” United States v. Orozco, 576 F.3d 745, 749 (7th Cir.2009) (quoting United States v. Lamon, 930 F.2d 1183, 1188 (7th Cir.1991)). And “in the case of drug dealers, evidence is likely to be found where the dealers live.” Id. (quoting Lamon). Jones does not contest these propositions. Nor does he contest whether there was probable cause to believe that he was a drug dealer. Instead, Jones challenges whether the affidavit contained a substantial basis for concluding that he lived at 2713 Eagledale Drive. Ideally, Detective Clark’s affidavit might have supported its claim that 2713 Eagle-dale Drive was Jones’s “residence” through house rental, house sale, utility or car registration records. (Notably, Jones’s cell phone registration would not have helped law enforcement, since Jones’s phone was registered to a different address at 2545 Brittany Road.) Still, even in the absence of such proof, the affidavit provided some evidence that Jones had a substantial connection to the Eagledale address. The observations of Jones’s cell phone at, and his car in close proximity to, the address were sufficient to demonstrate a likelihood that Jones had spent the night there on at least two recent occasions. Of course, the fact that an individual spends the night at a location on two occasions does not necessarily make that location the individual’s residence. And law enforcement did have information, not presented to the magistrate judge, that 2713 Eagledale Drive might not have been Jones’s only residence since his cell phone was registered to a different address at 2545 Brittany Road. Nonetheless, the fact remains that both times that law enforcement tried to locate Jones during the early morning hours, he appeared to be at the Eagledale address. Given that law enforcement had some evidence suggesting that 2713 Eagle-dale Drive was one location (if not the only location) where Jones resided, the district court’s decision was supported by substantial evidence. Probable cause exists if the supporting affidavit “allege[s] specific facts and circumstances to allow the judge to reasonably conclude that the items sought to be seized are associated with the crime and located in the place indicated.” United States v. Koerth, 312 F.3d 862, 867 (7th Cir.2002). Here, Detective Clark provided two observations of both Jones’s cell phone and car to support the claim that 2713 Eagledale Drive was Jones’s “residence.” Perhaps law enforcement could have done more to connect Jones to the house on Eagledale Drive; however, they did enough to support a search warrant for the house. Furthermore, even if Detective Clark’s affidavit had not been sufficient to support a search warrant for the house under the probable cause standard, the search of 2713 Eagledale Drive would nonetheless be saved under Leon, 468 U.S. at 922, 104 S.Ct. 3405. Leon and its progeny require us to treat Detective Clark’s decision to obtain a search warrant “prima facie evidence that he was acting in good faith.” United States v. Garcia, 528 F.3d 481, 487 (7th Cir.2008). As a result, Jones can only defeat this good-faith exception by showing: “(1) that the issuing judge abandoned the detached and neutral judicial role; (2) that the officer was dishonest or reckless in preparing the affidavit; or (3) that the warrant was so lacking in probable cause that the officer could not reasonably rely on the judge’s issuance of it.” United States v. Miller, 673 F.3d 688, 693 (7th Cir.2012). Jones does not contest the issuing magistrate judge’s neutrality; indeed, Jones seems to concede that the issuing judge made an understandable decision given the affidavit presented to him by Detective Clark. According to Jones’s brief, the affidavit’s use of the term “ ‘residence’ ” to describe 2173 Eagledale Drive “is a highly meaningful assertion to any issuing magistrate” and “carries with it unique inferences that do not exist with other types of physical locations.” Instead, Jones attempts to defeat the good-faith exception by arguing that (1) Detective Clark was reckless in preparing the affidavit by labeling 2713 Eagledale Drive as Jones’s “residence” and by failing to mention the 2545 Brittany Road address, and (2) law enforcement officers could not have reasonably relied on the magistrate judge’s issuance of a search warrant as it was based on only two observations of Jones’s car and cell phone at that location. We agree with Jones that Detective Clark’s affidavit could have been more complete. If the affidavit had mentioned that the cell phone was billed and the automobile was registered at 2545 Brittany Road, the magistrate judge could have weighed those facts against the early-morning GPS and car-sighting results. Given the limited information that Clark had about Jones’s link to 2713 Eagledale Drive, it would have been more accurate to describe the Eagledale address as “a place where Jones appears to reside” or even “one of Jones’s residences.” Nevertheless, Detective Clark’s affidavit need not be either airtight or flawless in order to hold up under the good-faith exception. Under our precedent, the presumption that law enforcement was acting in good faith by seeking a search warrant is so strong that we will uphold the presumption as long as there is “some indicia” of criminal activity on the property that can support a finding of probable cause. Koerth, 312 F.3d at 870. For instance, although we found that the officer’s affidavit in Koerth had failed to establish probable cause for issuing a warrant to search the defendant’s “residence,” we nonetheless refused to suppress the fruits of the search under the good-faith exception. Id. at 867-71. The affidavit in that case referenced a tip from a confidential informant indicating that Koerth resided at the property to be searched and that illegal drug activity had previously occurred there. Id. at 870. We also did not believe that the judge issuing the search warrant had been misled by the affidavit. Id. at 871-72. As a result, we concluded that the affidavit “provided the type of facts that, if corroborated or explained in greater detail, might very well have been sufficient to establish probable cause,” and upheld the district court’s refusal to suppress the evidence recovered during the search. Id. at 870. In the present case, the observations of Jones’s cell phone and car at the Eagledale address during the early morning hours certainly provided some indicia that Jones was residing at that address. Moreover, these observations indicated that illegal drug activity was occurring on the property since the cell phone traced through GPS to the Eagledale address was the very same cell phone that Jones had used to make incriminating phone calls to Mocka-bee. Although Detective Clark’s affidavit did not make clear whether 2713 Eagle-dale Drive was Jones’s only “residence,” as opposed to one of his several residences, at the very least it suggested that Jones was regularly and recently spending the night there. Consequently, we do not believe that Detective Clark’s failure to mention that Jones may have had other residences besides 2713 Eagledale Drive was reckless. Nor do we believe the magistrate judge issuing the search warrant was misled by Clark’s failure to mention that Jones might have had other residences. Including the address to which Jones’s cell phone was registered probably would not have changed the magistrate judge’s determination that there was probable cause to search 2713 Eagledale because his car and cell phone were observed there on two different occasions in the early morning hours. As the district court correctly pointed out: “Because of the fungible nature of cell phones, it is not at all uncommon for individuals to reside at an address other than that listed in their cell phone subscriber records.” The observations of Jones’s cell phone and car at the Eagledale address cited in the affidavit were more than sufficient for a law enforcement officer to reasonably rely upon when executing the warrant, and thus were more than sufficient to satisfy the good-faith exception. Accordingly, the district court did not err in denying Jones’s motion to suppress. III. Trial Error Claims A. Jones — Sufficiency of the Evidence Because we agree with the district court that the evidence recovered from 2713 Ea-gledale Drive should not have been suppressed, we move now from Jones’s pretrial error claims to his trial error claims. As it turned out, the evidence recovered from the Eagledale residence was critical to the prosecution. The jury found Jones guilty of two crimes based upon items discovered in the Eagledale search — namely, possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The jury also found Jones guilty on the drug conspiracy charge, but the district court granted an oral Fed.R.Crim.P. 29 motion for judgment of acquittal on that charge after the verdict. Jones contends that his Rule 29 motion should have been granted on the other two charges as well. According to Jones, the government failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove that he possessed either the crack (Count Eleven) or the firearms (Count Twelve) recovered from the house at 2713 Eagledale Drive. He also challenges whether the government proved that he possessed the crack with intent to distribute. “A defendant challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a jury’s verdict bears a ‘heavy burden.’” United States v. Griffin, 684 F.3d 691, 694 (7th Cir.2012) (quoting United States v. Olson, 978 F.2d 1472, 1478 (7th Cir.1992)). He “must show that no rational trier of fact could have found that the government proved the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” Id. We view the evidence and draw all reasonable inferences “from the evidence in the light most favorable to the government.” Id. The essential elements of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) are that “the defendant knowingly or intentionally possessed a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it, while knowing that it was a controlled substance.” United States v. Carraway, 612 F.3d 642, 645 (7th Cir.2010). The essential elements of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) are that “(1) the defendant has a previous felony conviction, (2) the defendant possessed the firearm ..., and (3) the firearm ... had traveled in or affected interstate or foreign commerce.” Griffin, 684 F.3d at 695. With respect to both the drugs and the firearms, the possession proved could be actual or constructive, and sole or joint. Proof of the mere presence of Jones at the Eagledale residence would not be enough; proof of his possessory interest in the contraband would be necessary. Since both the drugs and the firearms attributed to Jones were recovered from the Eagledale residence, the success of Jones’s Rule 29 motion claim hinges on the evidence presented by the government at trial regarding the fruits of the search there, so we have scoured the record carefully for details concerning that search. When law enforcement arrived to execute the search warrant, there were two people inside the house: Jones and an unidentified female. 2713 Eagledale Drive is a ranch-style house containing three bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, and a kitchen. The house was, by all accounts and as well demonstrated by photos admitted into evidence, “a little messy,” to say the least. No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-6, 77. There was a mattress in the middle of the living room floor, not to mention an entire bedroom with “clothing and items of personal belongings scattered ... about it.” Id. And of course, there were three guns, three digital scales, a total of 100.1 grams of crack cocaine and Jones’s cell phone, strewn, along with a hodge-podge of clothing and household items, throughout the kitchen, the living room, and the two bedrooms. IMPD narcotics detective Mark Kunst testified at trial about where various items were found during the execution of the search warrant. Unfortunately, he was unable to provide information about where Jones and the female were in the residence at the moment of the police entry. But he did explain where the drugs and guns were found. The drugs were in plain sight in two rooms of the house. But the guns were not. The first gun was located in the living room behind the entertainment center, and Detective Kunst admitted on the stand that this gun was “not in view” and “you’d have to bend over to get it.” No. 11-2267 App. Dkt. 78-6, 75. The other two guns were located in the master bedroom, apparently lying among the piles of clothing. The master bedroom, according to Kunst’s testimony, was quite messy, and one of the guns there was at least partially obscured by clothing and other personal belongings. The government argues that it presented at least enough evidence to sustain a conviction on a theory of constructive possession. “Constructive possession is a legal fiction whereby a person is deemed to possess contraband even when he does not actually have immediate, physical control of the object.” Griffin, 684 F.3d at 695 (citing United States v. Morris, 576 F.3d 661, 666 (7th Cir.2009)). We apply the same test to determine constructive possession of the drugs and the gun. Morris, 576 F.3d at 666. “Constructive possession may be established by demonstrating that the defendant knowingly had both the power and the intention to exercise dominion and control over the object, either directly or through others. This required ‘nexus’ must connect the defendant to the contraband, separating true possessors from mere bystanders.” Griffin, 684 F.3d at 695 (citation omitted). Where, as here, a defendant does not have “exclusive control” over the property where the contraband was found, “evidence that a defendant had a ‘substantial connection’ to the location where contraband was seized is sufficient to establish the nexus between that person and the [contraband].” Id. (alteration in original) (quoting Morris, 576 F.3d at 667). “[M]ere proximity to contraband is not enough to establish a sufficient nexus to prove constructive possession.” Id. at 696. Rather, “[p]roximity must be coupled with other evidence, including connection with an impermissible item, proof of motive, a gesture implying control, evasive conduct, or a statement indicating involvement in an' enterprise in order to sustain a guilty verdict.” United States v. Reed, 744 F.3d 519, 526 (7th Cir.2014) (citing Griffin, 684 F.3d at 696), petition for cert. filed, (U.S. June 9, 2014) (No. 13-10530). In cases where a defendant jointly occupies a residence, a defendant’s “substantial connection” to the residence is insufficient to establish constructive possession of contraband in that residence. Griffin, 684 F.3d at 696-97. In such cases “proof of constructive possession of contraband in the residence requires the' government to demonstrate a ‘substantial connection’ between the defendant and the contraband itself, not just the residence.” Id. at 697 (emphasis added). We conclude that there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find that Jones had a substantial connection' to both the Eagledale Drive address and the crack cocaine located there. The government introduced evidence that on two separate occasions, in the early morning hours of January 11 and 15 — four days apart— Jones’s cell phone was located at the Ea-gledale Drive address and his car was parked nearby. Thus Jones’s cell phone and car were placed at the residence within five days of the January 20 search of the residence. And, as we know, when law enforcement searched the Eagledale Drive residence in the early morning on January 20, they found both Jones and his cell phone. Furthermore, although we do not know where inside the house the officers found Jones, we do know that more than half of the crack cocaine found there was out in the open in common areas — the kitchen and living room; it was not concealed away in a bedroom or closed container. One of the digital scales was found out in clear view on the kitchen countertop too. Thus, Jones had easy access to the crack cocaine and had the power to exercise dominion and control over it. In addition, the government introduced evidence of the telephone arrangement of six transactions from late November 2009 through January 4, 2010, in which Jones sought distribution quantities of crack cocaine from Mockabee. The last of these transactions occurred about two weeks before the search and seizure at the Eagle-dale Drive residence. These recorded conversations provide evidence that close to the time leading up to the search, Jones repeatedly had been seeking to acquire the very type of contraband found at the residence — distribution quantities of crack cocaine. This evidence provides that “other factor” our case law demands: Jones’s connection with and desire to possess crack cocaine. We think the evidence at trial established Jones’s substantial connection not only to the Eagledale Drive address but also to the quantities of crack cocaine found there — sufficient for the jury to conclude he was guilty of drug possession. That the woman who also was in the house when the officers arrived to search may also have had access to the crack is immaterial. As previously noted, possession may be joint. United States v. Kitchen, 57 F.3d 516, 521 (7th Cir.1995). Thus, the evidence was sufficient to prove that Jones possessed the crack cocaine. The government also presented sufficient evidence of Jones’s intent to distribute the cocaine. Evidence of a drug quantity inconsistent with personal use and evidence of drug paraphernalia associated with distribution, such as baggies or scales, raise a reasonable inference that the defendant possessed the drug with intent to distribute it. See, e.g., United States v. Irby, 558 F.3d 651, 654 (7th Cir.2009). Digital scales with cocaine residue were found in the residence. Detective Clark testified that 0.2 grams of crack cocaine was a common dosage unit for crack cocaine, and more than 450 dosage units of crack cocaine were seized from the residence. And the crack and scale in the kitchen were found in sight of a substantial stack of currency, a typical feature of the lucrative, cash-based business of illegal drug trafficking. Thus, the evidence raises a reasonable inference that Jones possessed the cocaine with intent to distribute it. Turning to the firearms found at the residence, we reach the same conclusion. The government argues that it has established a substantial connection between Jones and the .22 caliber Ruger pistol based on the proximity of the pistol to the crack cocaine found by the entertainment center in the living room. Detective Kunst testified that a Pyrex bowl containing the crack was “in the living room by the entertainment center” and the Ruger was found by reaching behind that center. Although not right next to each other, the drugs and that gun were in close proximity to each other. Regarding all the firearms found in the house, the government argues that it established a substantial connection between Jones and these firearms with proof of motive. The government relies on the strong relationship between drug trafficking and the possession of firearms. We have remarked that “it is widely known that guns and drugs go hand in hand.” United States v. Gulley, 722 F.3d 901, 908 (7th Cir.2013). Similarly, we and countless experts have recognized that “guns are tools of the drug trade.” United States v. Vaughn, 585 F.3d 1024, 1029 (7th Cir.2009). And although we have also recognized that “the average juror is not well versed in the mechanics of the drug trade,” United States v. Ramirez-Fuentes, 703 F.3d 1038, 1043 (7th Cir.2013), the government helped the jury draw that connection through the testimony of one of its law enforcement witnesses. IMPD Detective Stephen Swarm testified without objection that, based on his training and experience, drag traffickers use firearms to protect themselves from robbery or from being arrested by the police. Trial Tr. vol. 5, 748-49. Such testimony comports with what courts have allowed “concerning the tools of the [drug] trade.” Rairez-Fuentes, 703 F.3d at 1043 (quoting United States v. Allen, 269 F.3d 842, 846 (7th Cir.2001)) (internal quotation marks omitted). The evidence of Jones’s participation in drug trafficking provides the motive for his possession of all three firearms found in the residence and therefore establishes the substantial connection between Jones and the firearms. Viewing the evidence and drawing all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to the government, the evidence was sufficient to allow a reasonable jury to find that Jones possessed ■ crack cocaine with the intent to distribute, it and that he possessed the firearms to protect that distribution objective. Therefore, Jones’s sufficiency challenge to his convictions is unsuccessful. B. Drake Drake raises several alleged trial errors. She argues that the district court erred in: 1) admitting opinion testimony of Detective Clark interpreting drug code ' language, 2) impermissibly restricting her cross-examination of Detective Clark, 3) denying her Rule 29 motion challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain her conspiracy conviction, and 4) allowing prosecutorial misconduct during rebuttal argument. Drake also argues that the cumulative effect of these alleged errors denied her a fair trial. In responding to the first argument, the government does not argue that Detective Clark testified only as a lay witness, which distinguishes the recent case of United States v. Cheek, 740 F.3d 440, 447 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 134 S.Ct. 2152, 188 L.Ed.2d 1137 (2014), where we held that an agent’s “testimony about the drug code words and phrases used by [the defendant] and his coconspirators” that was based on the agent’s personal knowledge obtained from his case investigation was lay testimony. We therefore must review the district court’s decision to admit Detective Clark’s testimony under the Federal Rules of Evidence governing opinion testimony. 1. Federal Rules of Evidence 702 and 704 At trial, Drake’s counsel did not object to any of Detective Clark’s expert opinion testimony about how to interpret certain words used in the recorded telephone conversations (although counsel did question Clark about how he arrived at some of his interpretations). Nor did Drake’s counsel object to Clark being qualified as an expert. App. Dkt. 70-2, 100. Because neither Drake nor any other defendant objected to Detective Clark’s expert testimony, the government was not alerted that it needed to provide the bases for Clark’s opinions. Had there been an objection, the prosecutor could have examined Clark on his specialized knowledge, the bases of his expert opinions, and the principles and methods he used in forming his expert opinions, and we do not doubt that the prosecutor would have done so in this case. Consequently, we review the admission of his expert opinion testimony for plain error. United States v. Collins, 715 F.3d 1032, 1037 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 134 S.Ct. 658, 187 L.Ed.2d 435 (2013). We will reverse the district court’s admission of testimony only if the admission was “an ‘error’ that [wa]s ‘plain’ and that ‘affect[ed] substantial rights.’ ” United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 732, 113 S.Ct. 1770, 123 L.Ed.2d 508 (1993) (quoting Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b)). If the error was harmless, we will not reverse. See United States v. York, 572 F.3d 415, 429 (7th Cir.2009). “Expert testimony must be helpful to the jury to be admissible,” and “a witness should not be allowed to put an ‘expert gloss’ on a conclusion that the jurors should draw themselves.” United States v. Christian, 673 F.3d 702, 710 (7th Cir.2012). Detective Clark pointed out (shortly before being qualified as an expert witness) that although there is some “standard code” for drug transactions, “the majority of code language that drug traffickers use” is not “standardized.” App. Dkt. 70-2, 98. According to Clark, the non-standardized code between drug traffickers generally arises from “someone’s familiarity with another individual over time, repeated transactions.” Id. As a task force officer experienced in the drug trade, Clark helped the jury interpret the standardized drug language used by the defendants. And as the lead agent on the case who had “listen[ed] to over 10,000” intercepted phone calls among the defendants, Clark’s testimony helped the jury .interpret the non-standardized drug language specific to these defendants. We have condoned such testimony as helpful to the jury. In United States v. Ceballos, 302 F.3d 679, 687-88 (7th Cir.2002), we found DEA agents’ interpretations of the pronouns “it,” “them,” and “both” as referring to methamphetamine shipments “helpful to the jurors because [a]s a result of [the agents’ expert] testimony, the jury was able to apply to the evidence alternative theories of which they ordinarily would not have been aware” (alteration in original) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). In York, we concluded that an FBI agent’s expert testimony about the meaning of the words “six,” “nine,” “five dollar,” and “fifty-five” within a conversation “would assist the jury” since the meaning of these words were otherwise ambiguous. 572 F.3d at 423. And in Christian, we found that an FBI agent’s expert testimony about a defendant’s arm movements helpful, explaining; “Although at first glance, expert testimony that Christian’s arm movements were consistent with tossing an object may appear to be a matter of common sense, a more deliberate consideration of the testimony suggests otherwise. What might seem like innocuous conduct to an untrained jury, might, to the trained eye, be indicative of criminal activity.” 673 F.3d at 711. Drake also challenges whether Detective Clark’s opinions were based on reliable principles and methods. Although not a model of expert analysis, there is no evidence that Clark used unreliable principles and methods. Throughout the expert portion of his testimony, Clark stated that he drew his conclusions from his “training and experience applied to this case, [and] listening to over 10,000 or so intercepts.” App. Dkt. 70-3, 81. He also said that in “identifying and interpreting code language in this ease,” he “conducted] some form of peer review ... in the sense that [he] work[ed] closely with other detectives within [his] unit.” If he had a “thought or a certain technique or operation” he wanted to try, it was “discussed, and people offer[ed] their opinions as well.” App. Dkt. 70-2, 305-06. Clark’s limited discussion of his principles and methods is sufficient under York, where we said: Experts need not establish that certain words have fixed meanings only in the narcotics world or in the particular conspiracy before they can interpret those words. Experts can determine, based on their expertise, that certain words have drug-related meanings within the context of a single conversation. In Co-hollos, for example, agents interpreted the words “it,” “them,” and “both” as referring to shipments of methamphetamine. 302 F.3d at 687. Those words certainly lack any “fixed meaning” in the narcotics world or elsewhere — “it” does not always mean meth. But in the context of that conversation, where the pronoun “it” had no antecedent, the agents, drawing on their expertise, had a reliable basis to conclude that those words referred to drugs. Id. at 687-88. 572 F.3d at 424. In addition, two interdiction stops were conducted shortly after Mockabee, Drake, and Young had used some of the coded language, and powder or crack cocaine was seized each time. These interdictions tested Detective Clark’s theory as to the meaning of the coded language, and the seizures lend support to his interpretations. Yet Detective Clark repeatedly transitioned back and forth between testifying as an expert and testifying as a fact witness/lead case agent during his expert testimony. In York, we explained: Seamlessly switching back-and-forth between expert and fact testimony does little to stem the risks associated with dual-role witnesses. Even more problematic was the way in which the government prefaced these questions: “Based on your experience of [sic] crack cocaine investigations and this investigation in particular....” Id.; see also United States v. Garrett, No. 13-1182, 757 F.3d 560, 569-71, 2014 WL 2883886, at *6-7 (7th Cir. June 26, 2014) (discussing the danger of allowing an investigating officer to testify as both an expert and fact witness); Cheek, 740 F.3d at 447 (recognizing “inherent dangers” with using one witness as both an expert and lay witness). Although the prosecution was careful to preface every question with “based upon your training and experience,” it seems that “experience” sometimes meant experience with this particular ease, not general experience as a task force agent. For example, when asked on cross-examination (during his expert testimony) how he came to the conclusion that “one” meant “one ounce of cocaine,” Clark attributed this interpretation to his experience “from what [he] gathered through the investigation” as lead case agent. App. Dkt. 70-3, 127. It was error to allow this transitioning back and forth between expert and fact testimony. See York, 572 F.3d at 426 (holding district court erred in admitting a witness’s responses to the government’s questions about “six,” “fifty-five,” and “five dollar” where the appeals court could not tell whether the witness’s interpretations were based on his expertise or a conversation with the informant); United States v. Moreland, 70S F.3d 976, 983 (7th Cir.2012) (“Telling the jury that a witness is both a lay witness and an expert witness and will be alternating between the two roles is potentially confusing — and unnecessary.”), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 2377, 185 L.Ed.2d 1093 (2013). To avoid errors from dual-role witness testimony, we have explained that “[t]he lawyer examining the witness need only ask him the basis for his answer to a question, and the witness will then explain whether it was his investigation of the defendants’ conspiracy or his general experience in decoding drug code.” Id. at 983-84. But here the lawyers did not do a good job asking Detective Clark for the basis for his answer to each question. It is often unclear in the trial transcript whether the detective is basing his testimony on his experience as a general drug investigator or his experience with this particular case. The district court should not have admitted Detective Clark’s dual-role witness testimony. Nonetheless, the error in failing to distinguish between the expert testimony and lead-case-agent testimony is salvaged under our plain error standard of review. Under that standard, we will not rev