UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Juan Carlos FUENTES, Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:
Fuentes argues that his motion to suppress cocaine found in his pocket should have been granted, because his Terry stop at the airport was not based on reasonable suspicion, and because he was arrested without probable cause.
1.FACTS
Fuentes was stopped at the Yakima airport, by a local police officer working with the DEA, and a DEA agent. The district judge found that these were the reasons for the stop, and that these reasons gave rise to reasonable suspicion:
1. Yakima is a major narcotics transfer point;
2. the transfers “sadly relate to and often involve people,…
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