W.D.La.: BOLO for a stop in an armed robbery case was not stale after 8 days

When defendant voluntarily stops his car and gets out to walk away, the police encounter after that is not a “traffic stop” governed by traffic stop rules. The stop was consensual, but officers did have reasonable suspicion defendant’s vehicle had been involved in an armed robbery. The BOLO in this case had not gone stale after eight days after the first robbery. There had been two earlier ones. Defendant ultimately consented to a search of the vehicle to retrieve a gun. United States v. Reed, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 177720 (W.D.La. Dec. 28, 2015), adopted 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55995 (W.D. La. Apr. 23, 2016).