OH: Unidentified report of def driving under influence justified officer’s stop on totality

“The Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures does not forbid a police officer from initiating a brief investigatory stop of a person if the officer has reasonable suspicion to believe that the person is or is about to be engaged in criminal activity. In this case, the issue is whether a police officer had reasonable suspicion to briefly detain appellee, Sherry Tidwell, in order to confirm or dispel an unidentified witness’s assertion that Tidwell was operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Based on the totality of the circumstances then confronting the officer, we hold that his investigatory stop of Tidwell was reasonable and thus did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We accordingly reverse the judgment of the First District Court of Appeals that upheld the Hamilton County Municipal Court’s order granting Tidwell’s motion to suppress, and we remand this case to the trial court for further proceedings.” State v. Tidwell, 2021-Ohio-2072, 2021 Ohio LEXIS 1229 (June 24, 2021), rev’g 2019-Ohio-4493, 2019 Ohio App. LEXIS 4559 (5th Dist. 2019).