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MS: Call to house during drug raid gave RS to stop approaching car at roadblock

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Roadblock near house being searched was reasonable where the police during the raid overheard a call about somebody coming to buy drugs. Defendant was a passenger in the car, and it was stopped with reasonable suspicion. Spurlock v. State, 2011 Miss. App. LEXIS 132 (March 8, 2011): ¶12. In this case, the police received a phone call from an unidentified male while executing a search warrant at Jefferson’s home. When police answered, the caller asked, “Are you ready to re-up?” Before receiving the call, the police had uncovered marijuana, ecstacy, and handguns in Jefferson’s home. While the police did not have any identifying information for the caller other than his gender, they reasonably suspected that someone was approaching Jefferson’s home with contraband...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 12, 2011 (boomark / email).