State v. Raveydts

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] In this appeal, we confront the question of what amount of independent police corroboration is sufficient, when combined with information received from anonymous informants, to establish probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant. Two anonymous callers detailed to a' deputy sheriff what they believed to be drug-dealing activity they saw occurring at their apartment building. They provided license plate numbers of persons coming to the apartment to conduct ostensible drug purchases. The deputy checked the license numbers and verified that several of the…