{"id":9481,"date":"2013-11-21T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-18T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:06:24","slug":"en-us-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9481","title":{"rendered":"CA3: RS justified ordering a US ship to VI port for further inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Grenada passed on an anonymous tip that the defendant\u2019s ship was transporting cocaine. It was boarded in international waters by the Coast Guard, and it passed inspection and an ION test for drugs and explosives. They tried twice to do an \u201cat-sea space accountability inspection\u201d[n.1] to see if there were hidden compartments, but the seas were too rough. The ship was ordered to a Virgin Islands port, the nearest one. There, two drug dogs alerted on the ship, and a hole was drilled in the stern finding 250 packages of cocaine. The contact with the Captain on the ship at sea ripened into reasonable suspicion because of his vagueness about his travel plans. The court assumes the Captain of a ship has standing to contest a search of the vessel (still an open issue). <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/122942p.pdf\">United States v. Benoit<\/a>, 730 F.3d 280, 59 V.I. 1145 (3d Cir. 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Officer encountered the defendant at a DV call, and defendant had his hands behind his back. The officer asked if he had weapons, and he said no. The officer asked if he could search him, and he let him. It was by consent. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2dca.org\/opinions\/Opinion_Pages\/Opinion_Pages_2013\/September\/September%2018,%202013\/2D12-4738.pdf\">State v. Bell<\/a>, 122 So. 3d 422 (Fla. 2d DCA 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11021,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions\/11021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}