State v. Showalter

Defendant was indicted on three counts of possession of a controlled substance. ORS 475.992. The state appeals a pretrial order suppressing evidence. We reverse and remand.

The facts are not in dispute. Officer Brown obtained a warrant to search the “[p]remises located at 1721 E. 9th Street, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon” for methamphetamine, drug records and other evidence related to defendant’s purported drug trafficking activity. In the affidavit on which the warrant was based, Brown said that a named informant told him that defendant kept contraband in several places, including a…