State v. Matthews

The Tacoma Police Department set up a drug buy from Walter Matthews using confidential informants. From the Tacoma police station, one informant called Matthews’s pager. Matthews called back from Sumner. The Tacoma police tape-recorded the call relying on a statute that authorizes the police to intercept and record communications involving drug sales.1 After the sale, Matthews was stopped and arrested while driving a car registered to another. The police found cocaine under the front seat of the car and a gun in the trunk. Matthews was convicted of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance,…