AR: Where arrest was within territorial jurisdiction, the fact the breath test was outside jurisdiction isn’t a ground to suppress

The arrest was within the officer’s jurisdiction, but a breathalyzer administered outside of the officer’s jurisdiction was not a Fourth Amendment violation. Pickering v. State, 2012 Ark. 280, 412 S.W.3d 143 (2012).*

Defendant apparently was snitched off to the police by his own passenger that he was wanted on a warrant. The officer ran the defendant’s name and found the warrant. That was a sufficient basis for a stop. The CI’s reliability, if it’s even an issue, was established by finding the warrant or was mooted by the warrant. United States v. Beals, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 84919 (E.D. Cal. June 19, 2012).*

On de novo review, the officer’s version is more credible, even though he admitted he was in the gang unit conducting a traffic stop and “was not well-versed in the traffic code.” United States v. Shipp, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85924 (E.D. Wis. June 21, 2012).*