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N.D.Ind.: RS from citizen informant of drug-money exchange when cars showed up as predicted

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Apartment complex manager’s office reported to narcs that what appeared to be drug and money exchanges were occurring at regular intervals on a cul-de-sac in the apartment complex, and occupants were complaining. The exchanges occurred between non-tenants. The police surveilled and another exchange occurred, and that was reasonable suspicion for a stop. United States v. Woods, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 637 (N.D. Ind. January 5, 2010)*: The Court finds the following facts to be specific and articulable facts giving rise to a particularized and reasonable suspicion that the occupants of the two vehicles meeting at the Plumwood Apartments on March 31, 2009, were engaged in illegal drug trafficking. Twice a month over the course of several months, two men backed their vehicles up to a wooded area at the end of a cul-de-sac in an apartment complex...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).