In December 2015, Defendant was serving post-release supervised probation
for an unrelated offense. Probation Officer Michelle Creech was assigned to supervise
Defendant. Ms. Creech visited Defendant’s residence regularly to monitor
Defendant’s compliance with the terms of his probation. Defendant lived in a house
along with approximately eight other people, including his fa... More...   $0 (01-07-2018 - NC)

On 10 April 2015, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant for an
apartment on Basin Street, in Charlotte, North Carolina. When the officers arrived
at the apartment, defendant was sitting in his car in front of the residence. Two
officers approached defendant in order to prevent any interference with the execution
of the search warrant, and remained near defendant ... More...   $0 (01-07-2018 - NC)

At a pretrial hearing, Dechert urged a motion to suppress evidence seized from her pickup
truck and her BMW. The only witness who testified at the hearing was the arresting officer,
Officer Hunter Westbrook, and the following summarizes his testimony.
Officer Westbrook testified he was completing paperwork at the jail at 2:00 a.m., when
another officer called him and asked hi... More...   $0 (01-05-2018 - TX)

On May 3, 2016, Antonio Lawrence was driving a vehicle in which Thomas
was a passenger when a Brookston police officer pulled the vehicle over. After
the officer approached, Lawrence sped away.
[3] A short time later, at approximately six o’clock in the evening when it was still
light out, police received a 911 call from a concerned homeowner in Brookston.
He went to t... More...   $0 (01-04-2018 - IN)

The parties do not contest the judge's comprehensive findings of fact, which we summarize, supplemented where appropriate by the testimony from the motion hearing.1 See Commonwealth v. Jones-Pannell, 472 Mass. 429, 431 (2015). This case stems from an investigation into the crime of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, G. L. c. 265, § 50 (human trafficking),2 which was prompted by an ill... More...   $0 (01-04-2018 - MA)

Ferrell was a backseat passenger of a friend’s car when she was pulled
over for a marked lanes violation. Ferrell remained seated in the backseat while officers
removed the driver of the vehicle and conducted a pat down. She then authorized a
search of her vehicle.
{¶3} An officer then asked Ferrell to exit the car. She also asked him if he had
anything in his pockets... More...   $0 (01-04-2018 - OH)

On July 8, 2016, appellant was indicted for possession of heroin, a felony
of the fourth degree with a forfeiture specification – contraband (heroin). Appellant pled
not guilty. Subsequently, he filed a motion to suppress evidence, and the trial court held
a suppression hearing.
{¶3} The evidence revealed that on May 20, 2016, at about 10:00 a.m., Mentor
Police Officer B... More...   $0 (01-04-2018 - OH)

New York, NY - Turkish Banker Convicted Of Conspiring To Evade U.S. Sanctions Against Iran And Other Offenses
Unanimous Manhattan Jury Finds That the Defendant Also Used His Position at Turkish Bank to Facilitate Access to the U.S. Financial System and to Conceal International Financial Transactions for Iranian Entities in Violation of U.S. Sanctions

MEHMET HAKAN ATILLA was found guil... More...   $0 (01-04-2018 - NY)

On 19 December 2014, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Wayne Goode
(“Officer Goode”) was on duty in the area of Dalton Street and Tryon Street in
Charlotte. Officer Goode and other officers conducted surveillance of Defendant as
he sat in the driver’s seat of a gold-colored Mercedes-Benz sedan, parked at a gas
station located on North Tryon Street. Officer Goode was famili... More...   $0 (12-31-2017 - NC)

McKibbon pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation
of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). In calculating his sentence for that offense under the 2016
sentencing guidelines, the district court consulted U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, which provided
for a base offense level of twenty if McKibbon had a prior “controlled substance
offense” as defined by U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) and i... More...   $0 (12-30-2017 - CO)

The drug conspiracy at issue in this case involved Defendant, his brother Omar,
and co-defendant Felipe Sifuentes. Mr. Sifuentes, who entered into a plea agreement with
the government, was a key witness at Defendant’s trial. He testified that he began selling
methamphetamine around 2011 or 2012. In 2013 or 2014, Mr. Sifuentes stopped selling
methamphetamine for a period of time ... More...   $0 (12-30-2017 - KS)

About 10:30 P.M. on August 15, 2015, a dispatcher informed Sergeant
Christopher Eastwood of the Oklahoma City Police Department that a caller had reported
someone smoking marijuana in a black Honda with Texas license plates parked at an
Arby’s. Although the caller did not identify himself (for convenience we will treat the
caller as a male), he said he was an employee at the A... More...   $0 (12-30-2017 - OK)

This case is one of several arising out of the activities
of a sprawling drug-distribution ring operating in Maine. As such,
it implicates one of many spokes radiating from the hub of a
conspiratorial wheel. We briefly rehearse the relevant facts and
travel of the case, directing readers who hunger for more exegetic
details about the drug-distribution ring to consult our... More...   $0 (12-30-2017 - MA)

Alejandro-Rosado was originally convicted of receiving
a firearm as a person under indictment in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§§ 922(n), 924(a)(1)(D), a class D felony. He was sentenced to
thirty-six months' imprisonment and three years of supervised
release. His incarceration ended on January 15, 2015, and he
immediately began serving his term of supervised release. On June ... More...   $0 (12-29-2017 - PR)

Appellant was charged by indictment with three counts of the offense of possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance: methamphetamine in an amount of 200 grams or more but less than 400 grams;1 cocaine in the amount of four grams or more but less than 200 grams;2 and heroin in an amount of one gram or more but less than four grams.3 Further, in a separate count, he was charged by... More...   $0 (12-28-2017 - TX)

On December 5, 2014, the Jefferson Parish District Attorney filed a bill of
information charging defendant with one count of possession of heroin with the
intent to distribute in violation of La. R.S. § 40:966(A) and a second count of
possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute in violation of La. R.S. §
40:967(A).1 Defendant was arraigned on February 19, 2015, and ple... More...   $0 (12-26-2017 - LA)

On November 9, 2015, Ames Police officers responded to a call from
Sandra Fairbanks reporting a broken window at her residence. While discussing
the incident with Fairbanks at the front door to her residence, Officer Vincent Junior
reported he could smell marijuana and see a hazy smoke inside the residence.
After entering the residence with Fairbanks’ consent, Officer Junior ... More...   $0 (12-24-2017 - IA)

On January 14, 2015, at around 1:47 p.m., Indiana State Police Trooper James
Wells (“Trooper Wells”) approached a vehicle in the left lane of southbound
Interstate 65 that was traveling below the posted speed limit of 70 miles per
hour. Before the vehicle yielded the lane, Trooper Wells clocked its speed and
determined that it was traveling at approximately 63 miles per hour. ... More...   $0 (12-24-2017 - IN)

Defendant Hypico Beaulieu appeals his six criminal convictions and his sentence, all related to drug trafficking and the illegal possession of firearms. Co-defendant Jean Oscar appeals his two convictions for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm on two different dates. Their appeals present five issues, implicating the lengthy investigation that led to their arrests and their joint c... More...   $0 (12-22-2017 - FL)

In this appeal, we consider whether a warrant application
that did not include evidence as to why a specific apartment
unit should be searched fell short of establishing probable
cause for the search of that apartment, in violation of the
Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article
I, Paragraph 7 of the New Jersey Constitution.
Defendant Akeem Boone... More...   $0 (12-21-2017 - NJ)

On the evening of October 16, 2014, Officer Dennis Simmons of the Harrisburg Police Department was conducting an undercover surveillance operation in a highcrime area of the city while dressed in plainclothes and sitting in an unmarked car. While in his car, Officer Simmons heard a radio dispatch about possible gunshots in an unspecified area east of his location. The dispatch went on to describ... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - PA)

Following the recovery of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia from the
purse and car of Brandy Frances Ball on the evening of October 29, 2016, she was
charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug
paraphernalia. She moved to suppress her arrest and all evidence and statements
acquired as the product of this encounter with the police, as violation... More...   $0 (12-18-2017 - CO)

Real parties in interest, Four J’s Community Living Center, Inc. (“Four J’s) and Anthonia Uduma (“Uduma”), have filed motions for rehearing and for en banc reconsideration of our April 27, 2017 opinion. We deny the motion for rehearing, but withdraw our opinion and issue the following opinion in its stead. Because we issue a new opinion in connection with the denial of rehearing, the motion for en... More...   $0 (12-18-2017 - TX)

When a trial court is determining whether probable cause exists to support the issuance of
a search warrant, the trial court does not make any credibility determinations but is constrained to
the four corners of the affidavit. State v. McLain, 337 S.W.3d 268, 271 (Tex. Crim. App. 2011);
State v. Evans, 486 S.W.3d 636, 638 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2016, pet. ref’d). “Accordingly, More...   $0 (12-17-2017 - TX)

A federal judge sentenced a former Chicago Police officer to five years in prison for notifying a high school friend that he was the target of a federal drug investigation.

In June 2014, RONALD COLEMAN was a Chicago Police officer assigned to work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on an undercover investigation dubbed “Operation Five Leaf Clover,” which targeted drug trafficki... More...   $0 (12-17-2017 - IL)