United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of a suppression motion in a prosecution for drug and immigration crimes is affirmed where: 1) there was ample support for a conclusion that a trooper had probable cause to arrest defendant based on an objectively reasonable suspicion he was traveling in tandem with a vehicle transporting drugs in a hidden compartment and, thus, was involved in criminal activity; and 2) consequently, defendant's arrest, detention, and a subsequent inventory search of his vehicle did not violate the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2007
• Published 08/29/2007

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, McKAY, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• E. Jay Greeno, Wichita, KS, for Defendant-Appellant., Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney (Brent I. Anderson, Assistant United States Attorney, with him on the brief), District of Kansas, Wichita, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.