{"id":7478,"date":"2013-01-07T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T08:53:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T08:53:03","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7478","title":{"rendered":"CA8: RS needed to detain a UPS package in transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reasonable suspicion is needed to detain a package, and the markings and other information gave that here. A dog then alerted, and then a search warrant obtained. Then there was a controlled delivery to defendant&#8217;s house. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/12\/07\/113823U.pdf\">United States v. Tapia<\/a>, 481 Fed. Appx. 288 (8th Cir. 2012):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a law enforcement officer, Meyer needed &#8220;reasonable suspicion that a piece of mail, or a package shipped via a commercial carrier, contains contraband to lawfully seize it for investigative purposes.&#8221; United States v. Lakoskey, 462 F.3d 965, 975 (8th Cir. 2006) (quoting United States v. Smith, 383 F.3d 700, 704 (8th Cir. 2004)). A seizure occurs &#8220;when there is some meaningful interference with an individual&#8217;s possessory interests in that property.&#8221; Jacobsen, 466 U.S. at 113.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}