United States v. Mark E. Clayton

WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.

Mark Clayton appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his motion to suppress evidence. We affirm.

I

Detective Lawrence Cook of the Jackson County Drug Task Force received an anonymous telephone call on January 29, 1996. The caller stated that he had recently been with Clayton and another individual known as “Squirrel” at Clayton’s home in Independence, Missouri, and that the home contained a methamphetamine laboratory and a sawed-off shotgun. Cook ran a computer search and found that Clayton’s name matched the address the tipster had given and that Clayton had an…