State v. Vick

GREENE, Judge.

Danny Sylvester Vick (Defendant) appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence.

In January 1996, the Raleigh Police Department Drug and Vice Task Force (Drug Task Force), a squad of the police department’s narcotics unit which targets “upper level narcotics dealers and organized crime figures in this area,” received information from a confidential informant that Defendant “was storing, and transporting and dealing large quantities of drugs.” The informant told the Drug Task Force that:

[Defendant] lived near Crabtree Valley Mall and he drove a blue Ford…