LA2: GFE applies to GPS nearly two years before Jones; here, def fled and abandoned car

A GPS tracker was placed on defendant’s vehicle nearly two years before Jones, and he’d been under investigation for more than a year prior to that. Davis good faith would apply to the tracking, but that’s really not important: On the day in question, defendant was under visual surveillance, and the officers moved on him to make a stop, and he fled and then abandoned the car. There was thus probable cause for an arrest for flight from the officers. State v. Freeman, 2016 La. App. LEXIS 680 (La.App. 2 Cir. April 13, 2016).*

Defendant was stopped when his Texas LPN was run, and it came back expired. When officers walked up to the car they could smell marijuana. They asked about it, and he produced some. He also had a gun that came back “clean.” A drug dog was called and arrived in five minutes. The detention for the dog sniff was based on reasonable suspicion. State v. Prince, 2016 La. App. LEXIS 686 (La.App. 2 Cir. April 13, 2016).*