United States v. Edgar Barraza-Maldonado

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Edgar Barraza-Maldonado entered a conditional plea of guilty to possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute after the district court 1 denied his motion to suppress cocaine and other evidence found after a traffic stop of the borrowed car he was driving. He appeals the suppression ruling, arguing that Arizona agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) violated his Fourth Amendment rights as construed in United States v. Jones, — U.S. —, 132 S.Ct. 945, 181 L.Ed.2d 911 (2012), when they installed a global positioning system (“GPS”) device…