State v. Erickson

This is another case in which an officer of the Narcotics Division of the Portland Police Bureau made a narcotics search and arrest in Lair Hill Park based on information supplied to him by an informant. See State v. Diaz, 3 Or App 498, 473 P2d 675, Sup Ct review denied (1970). The defendant, convicted of possession of marihuana, appeals, assigning as error the court’s denial of his motion to suppress the evidence found on his person.

Officer Boggs, while at police headquarters in Portland, received a telephone call from a reliable informant who informed Boggs he had seen a person with…