S.D.N.Y.: Buying a vehicle and loaning it for a drug run is a loss of the REP; denial of knowledge of a secret compartment is a waiver of the REP

Defendant who bought a vehicle and then loaned it to another to do a drug run lacked standing in the vehicle. “Having provided the Yukon to Sandy for purposes of making the trip to New Orleans, Jorge Gomez thereby relinquished any expectation of privacy in the vehicle.” Denial of knowledge of a secret compartment in a vehicle is a waiver of any claim of a reasonable expectation of privacy in the compartment. United States v. Gomez, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99920 (S.D.N.Y. July 29, 2016).

The district court logically could conclude that the officer was more credible about defendant’s stop than defendant who lied repeatedly during the traffic stop and tried to get the passenger to lie, too. The district court found the search of the car valid as an inventory search, and defendant doesn’t challenge it on appeal. United States v. Vires, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 13864 (8th Cir. Aug. 1, 2016).*

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