State v. Vrabel

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnson, J.:

Law enforcement officers employed by the City of Prairie Village set up a controlled drug buy from Carl Vrabel to occur in the neighboring Johnson County city of Leawood. As a result of the controlled buy, the district attorney filed felony drug charges against Vrabel. But the district court suppressed evidence of the drugs and the conversation between the confidential informant (Cl) and Vrabel during die controlled buy because the Prairie Village officers had obtained that evidence while exercising their police powers outside of dieir…