United States v. Claude S. Jones

KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Claude Jones was convicted of possessing and passing counterfeit United States currency with intent to defraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 472 and 2 and conspiring to commit those acts in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. His exclusive ground for appeal is the district court’s refusal to grant his motion to suppress evidence seized at the time of his arrest. We conclude that the district court properly denied Jones’s motion to suppress and therefore affirm his conviction.

I. FACTS 1

At approximately one o’clock in the morning on January 10, 1998,…