Bulatko v. Commonwealth

Opinion

BARROW, J.

This appeal is from a conviction of driving a motor vehicle after having been adjudicated an habitual offender in violation of Code § 46.2-357. We hold that an anonymous report received by a police officer was sufficiently corroborated to constitute articulable suspicion justifying his investigative stop of the automobile driven by the defendant.

On the day the defendant was arrested, an anonymous person telephoned Chief Hassler of the Mount Jackson Police Department and told him that the defendant, whom he identified by name, was driving toward Mount Jackson and did not have…