Commonwealth v. Moreau

Auburn police Officer Eric Snay received a dispatch from headquarters that “an individual . . . had fallen on the steps in front of the Auburn Package Store . . . and that the person got in a vehicle and drove away and that [he was] *251operating erratically.” A precise description of the vehicle and the license plate number were included in the radio transmission. The source of the information was the clerk of the package store, later identified as Joanne LaRochelle, who witnessed the events and called the police right after the vehicle drove away. Based upon that information, the police quickly…