AK: Extending stop long enough to call PO for possible probation search was with reasonable suspicion

Continuing defendant’s stop long enough to call his PO to ask whether she wanted a probation search of him for drugs was based on reasonable suspicion. Adepoju v. State, 2014 Alas. App. LEXIS 16 (February 26, 2014).

Defendant was arrested for criminal trespassing in an apartment building when police were there looking for two Latino males but this was a Latino male and female. Her purse was handed over and it was searched, but there was admittedly no exigency. The fact a purse is a little heavy doesn’t mean it contains weapons or destructible evidence. Suppressed. People v. Jimenez, 2014 NY Slip Op 1262, 2014 N.Y. LEXIS 383 (February 25, 2014).

Defendant was a known drug dealer, and he left his house to go to the deals, and that showed nexus to his house being the place where drugs would be kept. A couple of day delay didn’t make the warrant application stale. United States v. Thornton, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 3473 (3d Cir. February 25, 2014).*