Watts v. State

LEHAN, Judge.

We reverse defendant’s convictions for possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. We conclude that the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to suppress and that the search and arrest of defendant grew out of an improper stop.

The arrest of defendant and seizure of the cocaine and drug paraphernalia resulted from a stop of defendant by an officer approximately thirty minutes after a report of a robbery which occurred four or five blocks away from where the officer observed defendant standing on a street corner holding a baby and talking to a woman. The…