{"id":61454,"date":"2025-07-12T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61454"},"modified":"2025-07-12T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:18:25","slug":"w-d-mo-unidentified-tipster-corroborated-by-hand-to-hand-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61454","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Mo.: Unidentified tipster corroborated by hand-to-hand transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The unidentified tipster was corroborated by defendant\u2019s hand-to-hand transactions during surveillance, and that was probable cause. United States v. Mangol, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130023 (W.D. Mo. May 23, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant sought to use the GPS information on his trailer to prove that he wasn\u2019t speeding when the officer said radar showed him going over the speed limit. The GPS information is too muddled to make sense. It measures in 21 second increments. Is it average speed, top speed? Can\u2019t tell. United States v. Aguero, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132167 (W.D. Okla. July 11, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the totality, after a brief conversation, defendant consented to this search. \u201cThe whole encounter between the agents and Defendant lasted approximately 10 minutes. During their interaction with Defendant, the agents wore plain clothes, did not display any weapons, did not raise their voices, did not threaten Defendant, and did not handcuff or otherwise restrain Defendant. Nor did any of the agents physically touch Defendant before he was arrested. Moreover, Agent Bernecker noted that Defendant was very calm, relaxed, and cooperative during his interaction with the agents.\u201d United States v. Stevenson, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131842 (E.D. Ky. July 11, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unidentified tipster was corroborated by defendant\u2019s hand-to-hand transactions during surveillance, and that was probable cause. United States v. Mangol, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130023 (W.D. Mo. May 23, 2025). Defendant sought to use the GPS information on his trailer &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,35,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-voluntariness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61456,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454\/revisions\/61456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}