Commonwealth v. Polo

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

This case presents the issue of whether the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibits the random stopping of a vehicle to conduct a drug interdiction investigation in the absence of reasonable suspicion or probable cause.1 We conclude that *221such a stop is unlawful under Article I, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. For the following reasons, we affirm Superior Court’s order suppressing the evidence obtained during the course of the investigation.

On September 22,1995, a Greyhound bus on which Appellee was a passenger approached the tollbooth at the Delaware Water Gap…