Officers gave chase to a bank robber who was carrying a GPS in a bait pack of money. When the package stopped moving, it was in one of 20 cars. Considering the gravity of the situation, stopping all 20 at a roadblock was reasonable. It was not constitutionally required for the officers to further attempt to narrow down the potential vehicles involved. United States v. Paetsch, 900 F. Supp. 2d 1202 (D. Colo. 2012):<\/p>\n
Under the particular facts and circumstances of this case, the Court holds that the officers’ initial stop of the twenty vehicles was reasonable, and therefore did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Applying the statement of law cited immediately above from Edmond, the roadblock here was, without a doubt, designed “to catch a dangerous criminal ….” Edmond, 531 U.S. at 44. At the time the 20 vehicles were detained, the Aurora Police Department was seeking an armed individual whom they knew had robbed a bank with the use of a visible handgun, clearly designed to instill fear in the individuals in the bank, and creating the potential for a fatal shooting at the bank. In the Court’s view it was entirely reasonable for the officers to assume that the robber continued to be armed and dangerous, especially given the fact that the mass traffic stop was effected less than 15 minutes after the bank robbery itself had taken place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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