Ex parte George Willie Pollard.

I dissent from quashing the writ of cer-tiorari in this case.

On January 12, 2011, law-enforcement officials received an e-mailed “Meth Check Alert,” apparently as part of the National Precursor Law Enforcement Exchange Program, indicating that George Willie Pollard had purchased pseudoephedrine at a store in Opelika. The alert was relayed to Detective Michael Rogers, a narcotics investigator with the Opelika Police Department.

Rogers drove to a position near Interstate 85 to observe vehicular traffic traveling north, apparently in an. attempt to observe Pollard’s vehicle. Rogers Was familiar…