Rodriguez v. State

FERGUSON, Judge.

This appeal is from an adjudication and sentence for trafficking in narcotics following a jury verdict of guilty. The pertinent facts are as follows.

Officer Hewes of the Dade County Public Safety Department, while on routine patrol in the area of S.W. 280th Street and Biscayne Bay, came upon two trucks, a dump truck and a pick-up truck, both of which appeared to be abandoned. He looked into the dump truck and saw a number of bales of what he knew, based on experience, to be marijuana. He summoned a police helicopter. Hewes and Officer Woods, the helicopter pilot, while flying…