Commonwealth v. Knoeppel

DEL SOLE, President Judge:

¶ 1 This is a Commonwealth appeal from the Order entered March 8, 2000, in the Northumberland County Court of Common Pleas, granting Appellee’s motion to suppress evidence. For the reasons set forth below, we quash.

¶ 2 In early January of 1998, Detective Robert John, of the Shamokin Police Department, received information from a con*406fidential informant that Appellee was selling marijuana. Based on the informant’s tip and additional information, Detective John and another officer removed two garbage bags from the sidewalk in front of Appellee’s residence in the early…