State v. Foster

OPINION

GARRARD, Senior Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s grant of Defendant Gerald Foster’s motion to suppress. We affirm.

On December 14, 2009, Detective Brian Martin of the Fort Wayne Police Department supervised a confidential informant’s alleged controlled buy of cocaine from Foster. On the morning of January 4, 2010, twenty-one days after the controlled buy, Detective Jean Gigli and Detective Angie Reed went to Foster’s apartment to arrest him at Martin’s request. The detectives did not have an arrest warrant. Gigli “pound[ed]” on Foster’s door, awakening Foster and his…