State v. Dunlap

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Dunlap’s trouble began one morning in June 1979 when the police received a tip that a light aircraft would be landing that afternoon with a load of marijuana in a remote area on the edge of the Everglades in the south end of Dade County. The police set up a surveillance using two helicopters and two police cars. Positioned at a distance from the scene of the proposed drop, the police observed an old green Pontiac (Dunlap’s) and a Dodge pick-up truck driving aimlessly on a road descriptively called “The Road to Nowhere.” The Pontiac and truck met at the south end of…