State v. Seven

The state appeals an order suppressing evidence. The trial court held that the police officer’s affidavit in support of the warrant did not contain sufficient facts to establish probable cause that the place to be searched contained evidence. We reverse.

The affidavit stated that two individuals with long histories of drug-related activity, neither of them defendant, had been stopped in a car by the police. One of them gave his address as 1190 Beach Loop Road; investigation revealed that the utilities for that residence were in the name of the other individual. The car contained evidence of…