D.G. v. State

Appellant D.G., a juvenile (“D.G.”), appeals his adjudication of delinquency claiming the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress tangible evidence. We reverse finding D.G. was searched pursuant to an illegal arrest, and thus the drugs found on his person should have been suppressed.

D.G. was charged by petition with possession of cocaine and resisting arrest without violence, after an officer observed him chasing another person down a street late one night. When confronted by the police officer, D.G. told the officer that he was chasing the third person because that person owed…