John Carlo v. United States

MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

On May 24, 1960 certain agents of the Bureau of Narcotics of the United States Treasury Department entered John Carlo’s Apartment Number 8 at 313 East 118th Street, New York City, and seized a brown paper bag containing six glassine envelopes within which were six ounces of heroin and two cardboard boxes containing 1% kilos of heroin. With the narcotics in one of the cardboard boxes was $20,100 of United States currency in a tightly wrapped brown paper bag.

After the arrest and arraignment of John Carlo on a charge of violation of the Narcotics Laws, but before his…