GA: Search of passenger’s purse in restaurant, after driver and she walked inside, for saying she didn’t know where he was was unreasonable

The officer here ran the tags of a truck and determined that the owner was wanted. By the time he was ready to make the stop, the driver and passenger had stopped and were walking into a restaurant. He came into the restaurant looking for the driver, and the passenger, sitting alone in a booth, said she didn’t know where he was, guessing he was in the bathroom. She was taken outside and made to call others in an attempt to find him. Her detention after that was without any reasonable suspicion that she’d committed any crime, and the officer essentially admitted it at the suppression hearing. The motion to suppress the search of her purse after that was properly granted. State v. Allen, 2015 Ga. App. LEXIS 56 (February 23, 2015).*