People v. Rueda

ERICKSON, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from a ruling by the Adams County District Court which suppressed evidence obtained in a narcotics investigation because the information given by two citizen-informants did not establish probable cause to arrest and search the defendant. We reverse the suppression ruling.

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On July 17, 1981, Don Cochell, a maintenance employee at the North Valley Shopping Mall in Thorton, Colorado, observed two men enter the shopping area and proceed to the mail’s rental lockers. Cochell overheard the two men argue over which locker they should use to store a…