Rebeiro v. State

Benham, Judge.

In a bench trial in which the parties stipulated to the evidence adduced at the motion to suppress hearing, appellant was found guilty of trafficking in cocaine. On appeal, he asserts as error the denial of his motion to suppress.

Investigator Noe of the Clayton County Sheriffs Department and Special Agent Neeley, both assigned to the Drug Enforcement Agency Airport Task Force, observed appellant, “a real short slender Hispanic,” deplane at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport from a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Appellant spoke to “a big, tall, . . . very heavyset,…